Weapons dubbed “less lethal” are as soon as once more being utilized in Los Angeles, this time in opposition to folks protesting the Trump administration’s immigration raids.
During the 2020 protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd, KFF Health News and USA Today documented the hurt that rubber bullets and different “less lethal” projectiles could cause. Here’s what we discovered.
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