plastic bullet

British  

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

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Example Sentences

On Tuesday, a coroner found that the decision to fire the plastic bullet was not justified or justifiable.

From BBC

“Arcs of gasoline fire under the crescent moon. Crimson tracer in mystical parabolas. Phosphorescence from the barrels of plastic bullet guns. A distant yelling like that of men below decks in a torpedoed prison ship. The scarlet whoosh of Molotovs intersecting with exacting surfaces. Helicopters everywhere: their spotlights finding one another like lovers in the Afterlife. And all this through a lens of oleaginous Belfast rain.”

From Los Angeles Times

“You are executing citizen’s arrest. Arrest this assembly, we have probable cause for acts of treason, election fraud,” one man said as Watkins reported undergoing plastic bullet and tear-gas fire.

From Washington Post

Frances Meehan, whose brother Michael Donnelly was shot with a plastic bullet in 1981, said Mrs Bradley's position is "untenable".

From BBC

Firearms officers, who were called after witnesses heard gunfire, fired a live round at Shearman before knocking him to the ground with a plastic bullet.

From BBC