It wasn’t until a few days later that she learned her injury was from a “less lethal” weapon police had fired into the crowd: rubber bullets. Rubber bullets are formally known as “kinetic impact projectiles,” and are not always made of rubber. By the 1970s, the British Ministry of Defence began using rubber bullets in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. Zeelee Segura was attending a May 30 protest in La Mesa, California, when she was shot in the mouth, a high risk area, with a rubber bullet. There were some little kids not too far away from me either.”Courtesy of Zeelee Segura Zeelee Segura shows her rubber bullet injury soon after leaving a May 30 protest in La Mesa, California.

Source: Huffington Post June 07, 2020 09:45 UTC