Some horrible pics circulating in Twitter, claiming to be the images of injuries suffered by protesters after they were shot with rubber bullets. Are rubber bullets capable of inflicting such injuries? (I thought that at the most they could cause bruises).
Rubber bullets will take off large pieces of skin when they hit you. Also, if you get hit in the eye, they can kill or blind you permanently.
Rubber bullets will likely scare a crowd into disbursing while not doing as serious damage to people as real bullets will. I would certainly agree that this is the lesser of two evils.
If the police had done nothing then the consequences would likely have been much worse.