Protester shot in the eye with rubber bullet during 'No Kings Day' rally in downtown Los Angeles

This was so common during protests in Spain they made a movie about it: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4555674/

Eyewitness News Reporter Sid Garcia spoke to the protester who was shot from his hospital bed at the L.A. General Medical Center.

I was thinking at first like, how lucky to be in a hospital bed already when being shot. 🧐

Reminder to folks that "less lethal" still means "lethal" even if the cops pretend it doesn't.

https://www.npr.org/2024/06/21/nx-s1-5015030/linda-tirado-journalist-shot-police-2020-george-floyd-protests-hospice-care

"Just one more peaceful protest bro. I swear bro"

I hope they recover their vision. As someone who lost sight in one eye I can attest that going from binocular to monocular vision is life altering AND not considered a disability under the law Social Security requirements but typically is covered by ADA.

Edit: clarification.

You shouldn’t have to wear safety rated glasses to protest, but I wouldn’t go to one without them at this point. If you normally wear glasses and they’re not rated an impact can shatter them and cause even more damage than not wearing them at all would have.

The protester was among tens of thousands of people who took to the streets for the demonstrations across Southern California and the rest of the country.

Tens of thousands? There were over FIVE MILLION protesters.

E OVER THIRTEEN MILLION protesters - thank you, Lucidlethargy

Waiting for Pussolini to send the National Guard to city hall, to depose the mayor and council.

We need a database of pigs and ICE.

Imagine if you are a refugee and escaped from a war/tyrannical regime only to end up in the US and reading these type of things on the news...

Must be awkward... 👀

chemistry stores in college sell those hard plastic glasses or goggles.

Less lethal is just maiming? That doesn’t seem much fucking better.

States need to pass ballot initiatives that make it completely legal to shoot any police officer with a rubber bullet whenever you feel like it. It should also be legal to pump tear gas into a police station whenever you want. Police are using these things against entirely peaceful protests. The only violent people are the police. Yet they're allowed to just use these weapons against people with no consequence whatsoever. I say what's good for the goose is good for the gander. If these weapons are that harmless that cops can just use them whenever, then we should be able to use them against cops whenever we feel like it as well. It should be entirely legal to shoot cops with rubber bullets. They should have to go everywhere in full body armor and face coverings. See a cop on the street? Shoot them with a rubber bullet. Officer pulls you over? Shoot them with a rubber bullet. Cop standing in line at a donut shop? Feel free to come up behind them and shoot them point blank in the back of the head with a rubber bullet.

If cops can use these weapon with such casual indifference, then they must be completely harmless. As such, there is no harm in allowing citizens to use rubber bullets and tear gas against officers at any time they choose. Anything that cops can do to random citizens random citizens should also be able to do to cops.

Classic passive voice headline.

I wonder if this was the guy that was injured during Hasan's stream on Saturday? There was a guy injured in the eye and the cops were definitely shooting head level.

I'm surprised they're not using real bullets