Rubber bullets have a metal plug in the center. They are lethal.

Calling them "rubber-coated lead bullets" is more accurate.

Rubber bullets, when used in protest situations, are to be fired at the ground and ricochet. These cops are firing directly at protesters.

Assholes

Rubber bullets do permanent damage to 15% of the people hit by them.
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The one journalist had on goggles, they aimed a head shot on purpose because they are targeting journalists, and it blew apart her eye through the goggles!!! She's permanently blind in that eye now. I can get a link if you'd like.

FFS, that is some truly horrific injury there, another trigger happy 'pork chop' (Cop) with an I.Q. less than his boot size I presume.

Bullets of any sort are nothing to fool around with.

Rubber and plastic bullets can kill, main, blind, cause internal injuries and break bones. British use of such "non-lethal" ammunition in Northern Ireland showed that cops and soldiers become more trigger- happy when issued this kind of ammunition.

rubber rounds are considered "less than lethal" cute phrasing for something that will do a ridiculous amount of damage when used improperly as police as doing

Rubber bullets can be lethal at close range. Even the baton round is extremely dangerous. A guy I worked with many years ago accidentally shot a woman's breast off as she walked in front of his intended target at the moment he fired. That was in Northern Ireland during the troubles.
At the moment there is a photo going around social media where an American policeman is pointing a weapon at a toddler on an adults shoulders. If the weapon accidentally discharged, then even a beanbag round is likely to kill or maim the child.
So, if you are going out to protest, be careful. Police are human too, and they can get very scared and do stupid things when under stress.

This is a terrible tragedy. It should not have happened and who is going to pay for her facial surgery? She should sue the city. Just because Trump thinks it is OK to use rubber bullets on protesters does not make it legal or anything that should be happening. Would Trump pay for this? The man has already declared that he is "not responsible." OK, then who is? It certainly is not Obama.

They are using them wrong so they can hurt people

I find it to be extremely infuriating. When injustice is waged on people, and they respond with looting, I think that is their way of dealing with a situation where they are themselves looted by those who discriminate against them . . . . you loot me, I will loot you . . . . same with the violence. While the government condemns violence, it is the first to use extreme violence, and very often without justification, also contrary to Constitutional Law . . . . So quite frankly, violence is being met with violence, because peaceful protest is not accomplishing much . . . . violence was used to suppress the Occupy Wall Street movement, and they are doing the same as they did with Occupy Wall Street, hoping for the same result. If the government does not want violence done against it, it needs to stop using violence against peaceful protesters. If they want to call protesters "Antifa", then we need to start calling them pro-fascists.
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"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." John F Kennedy

With a little honesty they would just kill you. Getting shot is terrible to say the least. It does not matter how or why, this should be illegal.

Fuck!!! That looks bad!!!

So, the cops can riot all that they want once it starts. But who is starting it? Could there be 1312 bricks in these stacks? Could it be the ACAB brick company. Asking for a friend.

Terrible. Criminal. Evil.

Lucky for her it was not a metal bullet. Stupid of her to be where this could happen to her. No sympathy.

The bullet fractured the skull?

You know I'd love to see every cop trained in 'Crowd Control,' etc, get shot in the groin with a few rubber bullets BEFORE they're let loose with them in public.
Just maybe they'd think twice and not just aim them at the most vulnerable parts of people.

Thank you for showing me this picture I don't wanna go for any protest ever

Is it real? Not Photoshopped? It is surprising that she not treated, awake and no bandage when the wood looks terrible.

Yet terrible. Must be banned.

The police departments around the nation have not changed for 200 years other than modernization around the edges like the modern cars, communications, uniforms and weapons. The structure, mentality, corruption, nepotism, biases, red tape have remained.

NOT PROTESTS::::: vandals, and thieves, and arsonists. NOT PROTESTS.....

Well I hope she is okay, but let's not focus in only one direction, but think about EVERYONE.
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