Please wear way more protective gear than this to protests. The cops want to permanently maim you
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2025
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Helmet and ballistic glasses are the minimum when cops are present. Chemical-resistant respirator if you have asthma or need to be functional in the presence of OC or CS gas.
cops use civilian-worn PPE as justification for increasingly violent crowd control. They're going to do it anyway, of course, but they blame you for protecting yourself while they do it
Finally having a small head paid off 
i kept watching it frame by frame. you literally see it just barely graze the hat of the dude next to him and it leaves an indentation in the fabric
that dude would have been fucked if he was standing half an inch over
also look how large and fast those things fly. “less than lethal” my small ass dick
Yeah I'm pretty sure those baton ammunitions were designed with the idea of shooting into someone's body, hence the "less lethal" part, with the idea being your center of mass takes the hit and knocks the wind out of you. In reality? Cops shoots these 4 inch batons right into people's faces and fucking kill them or at the very least seriously injure them. Fucking pigs.
It varies a little bit between munitions but usually police are only supposed to aim at limbs with them from more than a few meters away. They're intended to be shot at people's extremeties to force them to drop a weapon so that they can be subdued (and provided with neccessary medical care shortly after) without hurting themselves or someone else. For instance if someone is threatening officers with a knife, police could shoot them in the arm, likely breaking the bone, and forcing the person to drop the knife.
Getting hit in the head or center mass with them often leads to life threatening injuries because they break bones (like the skull or ribs), cause internal bleeding, and bruise or rupture organs. If they're being used for crowd control they should only be getting shot at legs or feet from a substantial distance and even that is extreme.
When you think about it, there are so many people there that it probably hit someone else behind them.
Theyre still-lethal rounds
motherfucker needs to wear a helmet.
Please someone get a helmet and respirator on our beautiful himbo analyst
Remember, helmet is small adult size
He had a proper respirator but he gave it to Marche when the cops started shooting tear gas
my beautiful himbo streamer will get himself killed by being too nice smdh 
Really should wear a helmet, with all the attention he's getting he will for sure be targeted
Rubber bullets have 3% lethality ^[https://www.wired.com/story/what-tear-gas-does-to-the-human-body/] compared to a 20% lethality rate of normal bullets ^[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/13785657/]. Anyone who says "less than lethal" or "non-lethal" is lying to you. A stab wound is 5% but a knife legally counts as deadly force when used by a civilian. Tear gas also frequently results in hospitalization in military recruits ^[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25003867/]
holy FUCK I actually flinched lmao
that was an incredibly close call, goddamn
does anyone know if police are actually trained to shoot rubber bullets like this? i know all the fucking lunatic cops do, but are they trained to?
i'm almost completely positive these are supposed to be bounced off the ground before hitting whoever you're aiming at. they're absolutely not supposed to be shot like this.
imagine that hit someone's temple, eye, throat. they'd be dead. frankly i'm shocked it didn't
They know that shooting at head level is a potentially lethal shot, yes 
i'm almost completely positive these are supposed to be bounced off the ground before hitting whoever you're aiming at. they're absolutely not supposed to be shot like this.
Oh they absolutely are intended to be fired directly at faces and eyes and all that. There's a few lines of text and some pictures to play pretend that the impact is actually quite pleasant if you just do a trick shot off the ground, but they're designed with, and purchased with, the full knowledge that these are going to be used to pop eyeballs and break bones.
It's just a cheap and safe way - for the cops - to implement a good ol' savage beatdown.
They're meant to be shot from some distance at the limbs of people who are going to be taken into custody and provided proper medical care after. They're basically meant to break arms or legs. Firing them at close range or at heads or center mass is a gross misuse of them and that is how they kill people.
They were specifically told to shoot em in the leg smdh 
You are correct on all counts
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