• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    9 hours ago

    I’ll keep repeating this because I think it’s important

    Wear safety glasses

    Not sunglasses, or shades or prescription glasses

    Wear actual industrial rated workers safety glasses.

    If you get those shots in your face, you’re going to lose an eye or both eyes. Safety glasses are designed for this kind of stuff and they actually work. It will stop those projectiles from damaging your eyes.

    Cops all over the world are known to purposefully shoot people’s faces and heads. After the fact they will just argue that it didn’t happen, it was accidental, it was chaotic, it was dangerous, etc, etc … it won’t matter after the fact if you lose an eye or end up completely blind.

    Wear safety glasses, they’re easy to find and easy to use.

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      47 minutes ago

      Wow, tips formerly shared with each other in Belarus (e.g. this one or how to avoid to get dragged into a random van by a pseudo police) are now also valid in the USA…

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        24 minutes ago

        They will block the pepperballs, rubber bullets might break them but most could withstand the hit better than your eyeball. It would lessen the injury from any projectiles they’re currently using, not actual bullets.

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      3 hours ago

      Safety glasses are not designed to take a rubber bullet. I don’t know how well it would actually protect you.

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        39 minutes ago

        If rubber bullets are going through your safety glasses than they are using lethal rounds that can punch through and into your skin and organs. At that point they aren’t using non lethal rubber bullets or pellets, they’re firing regular shotgun rounds at you that can kill you let alone endanger your eyes.

        If a bullet or projectile can punch through safety glasses … it can go through your skull.

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      4 hours ago

      Even better: safety goggles that seal around the eyes or face to reduce chemical exposure as well as projectile. Not the shitty safety goggles you got in high school chemistry, but things that actually fit & conform to your face.