“He suffered non-life threatening injuries..”
What were they using...cork guns?
“What were they using...cork guns”?
Are you serious?
From another much better article:
Officers from ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations team — who are in charge of arresting and deporting illegal immigrants — were in the process of serving a deportation order against Gaspar Avendano-Hernandez on West 12th Street near Highlawn Avenue in Gravesend when an associate of the deportee “physically attacked” the arresting officers, according to an ICE spokeswoman and law enforcement sources.
In the midst of the scuffle, the officer’s service weapon went off, sending a bullet through 26-year-old Erick Diaz’s hand that then ricocheted into his face, according to sources and Diaz’s brother, Kevin Yanez Cruz.
An ICE source told The Post that Diaz had reached for the officer’s gun, which is why he was shot.
https://nypost.com/2020/02/06/ice-agent-shoots-person-in-brooklyn-during-home-visit/
9mm.
If it had been a .357 oe any of the “starts with a 4”......
There is plenty of meat on areas of the face before you get to bone. The angle must have been such that it went through meat and missed bone.
Back in the seventies and eighties, a single deputy would go out and arrest people every Friday. (Meaning one deputy for per arrest.) It was a standard affair. Most of the arrestees were expecting. Almost never was there any kind of scuffle. Then, the culture changed, in a crusade often lead by elected politicians. Cops became the enemy and it was expected you could argue with them. The news media will support you. People will hold vigils for you. You will be an internet sensation!
Now, in my county, arrests look like, and often are, SWAT raids. Part of this is the militarization of the police. Part of it is the culture change, especially among “people of color.” (I think that means anyone who isn’t Caucasian.)
Maybe bird-shot or rock salt.