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[-] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago

Different victim but here's what a shot to the back can do:

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

This shit is ridiculous. I have many, many words. None of which are not pure rage and sadness.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

I had a similar bruise from a less-lethal bullet on my butt, and I've seen a kid get hit with one in his head, that was scary. This was a long time ago though, but the bullets then were steel core and rubber around it. Not sure if they use different ones in the US.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

I think he was hit with some kind of grenade the police fired. There seems to be a huge hole in the center. How is he not paralyzed??

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

IIRC, rubber "bullets" are somewhere around 30mm, which isn't that far off from the size of the rounds grenade launchers commonly use - I think those are usually 30-40mm. I saw somebody recently say that they're the size of 8 or even 4-gauge shotgun slugs, and an 8-gauge is 25% larger than a 12-gauge.

They're also not rubber like people think of when they hear the name. They're a metal slug wrapped in a layer of rubber or foam.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's a big-ass bruise. If it was a hole, that man wouldn't be standing.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Holy shit, where is that picture from? Is that an injury from the current round of protests?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

I believe that was from about a week ago. I think it got overshadowed by * gestures widely *.

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