While rubber bullets are considered a safer alternative to actual bullets, they’re not harmless. Here's what to know about them
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Amid the ongoing protests demanding justice in the wake of George Floyd’s death, police across the country have deployed a number of violent tactics to quell otherwise peaceful demonstrations, including shooting rubber bullets at protesters. While rubber bullets are considered a safer alternative to actual bullets, they’re not harmless.
Police across the country are firing rubber bullets to disperse peaceful protesters. Over the past week, police departments across the country have fired rubber bullets into crowds of peaceful protesters, causing extensive injuries. In California, a 59-year-old woman was hospitalized in an intensive-care unit and later entered a coma after she was shot between the eyes with either a rubber bullet or a beanbag round, which is also categorized as a nonlethal weapon.
According to the Trace, the Minneapolis Police Department’s use-of-force policy strongly advises against pointing 40 mm launchers — which are used to deploy rubber bullets, beanbag rounds, and sponge rounds — above a person’s lower extremities. The policy also acknowledges that the projectiles can cause “grievous” injuries, and in some cases, death. Rubber bullets should be used only to control “an extremely dangerous crowd,” Brian Higgins, a former police chief, told Kaiser Health News.
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