plastic bullet

noun

1. Formal name: baton round. a solid PVC cylinder, 10 cm long and 38 mm in diameter, fired by police or military forces to regain control in riots

Example Sentences

Margaret McGuinness was 13 when her father, Peter, was killed by a plastic bullet fired by security forces during a riot in Belfast in 1981.

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A British photojournalist, Nick Stern, was also taken into emergency surgery on Sunday after being hit in the thigh by a three-inch plastic bullet fired by police.

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The family of Stephen McConomy, the 11-year-old who died after being shot in the head by a plastic bullet fired by a solider in the Bogside in Derry, have also ruled out any engagement with the new body.

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The youngest person to die was 10-year-old Stephen Geddis who was hit by an Army plastic bullet at Divis Flats in Belfast in 1975.

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In 1981, 15-year-old Paul Whitters was hit by a plastic bullet fired by the RUC during street disturbances in Londonderry.

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