[Spooks]

For sure, also any of the news crews that were shot in the camera with rubber bullets were dangerously close to being seriously injured or death.

The below study would also assume not all the shots were head shots, aiming at a camera is the same as aiming at the head.

"The injuries in 90 patients caused by rubber bullets are described. There was 1 death and 17 people in the series had permanent disabilities or deformities. In 41 patients the injuries necessitated admission to hospital. One fatality outside this series is known. Injuries to the head and neck were frequent and severe."

source: https://archive.vn/20130106045139/http://www3.interscience.w...

[adrianN]

How well can you actually aim with rubber bullets? Do they fly in the same way as normal bullets?

[vorpalhex]

You're supposed to bounce them off the street so they lose most of their velocity. More than a few of the police force apparently forgot that part of their training.

Note that this only applies to the 35mm/40mm rubber bullets, not the less-than-lethal beanbag/rubber pellet munitions.