No, i have one on my bedside table that hit my wife this weekend on the I-35 feeder. They were firing 12-gauge beanbag rounds in little yellow fabric socks.

By the way, on a call yesterday, Chief Manley was forced to concede that these launcher propelled “foam batons” were also in use against protesters on Saturday and Sunday, which he had previously not mentioned, the liar. These are what people were probably conflating with rubber bullets, though those are supposedly a different product. ACAB. Fuck 12.

No worries brother. Lots of conflicting information out there. Just trying to keep the record straight with things I have some personal knowledge of, where possible.

100% wrong if we are talking about 16-yo Ayala. I listened to his brother weeping from outside his hospital room on the special session city council call yesterday, specifically talking about how doctors at two hospitals and his surgeons at Texas Children’s Hospital were told and operated initially on the information that he had been hit with a rubber bullet. They left it lodged in his wound for hours based on that information, before scrambling upon realizing what the actual media lodged in his forehead was, and operating for much longer to remove it and repair the damage. The called in additional surgeons and a plastic surgeon because of the particulate damage.He was in an extended overnight surgery at the point the doctors realized it was not a rubber bullet but a LL, shotgun fired beanbag round, which was a complicating factor for multiple reasons but mainly that the particulate causes much more damage and the media inside it created a very dangerous infection threat.

I am never going to forget his brother’s anguish over the state of his 16 year old kid brothers life being changed forever. He is scheduled to receive a metal plate today. He has had 3 surgeries already. He is having severe neurological complications and is absolutely not guaranteed a full recovery. All for a kid who, walking home from his job at Jersey Mike’s subs, told his mom on the phone that he “wanted to see history happen” and looked out over an unforgettable scene from 30-40 yards away from any participants. He was the sniped from the I-35 overpass by a trigger happy cop, and dropped to the ground unconscious, his life forever changed.

This is what he was hit with. You can compare it with the yellow tails emerging from his wound, it’s the same beanbag round. APD, for whatever their word is worth, has repeatedly stated that these projectiles, fires from converted 12ga pump action shotguns are the only crowd control round in play that day. I’m happy to take that with a huge grain of salt, but Mr. Ayala confirmed specifically this in his testimony to city council yesterday. As I said in my previous comment, my lady snagged the one that hit her, luckily on a ricochet. She still has a deep black bruise the size of a baseball from the impact. We’re incredibly lucky that it wasn’t worse.