Rubber bullets and tear gas may sound innocuous and offer a false sense of security. In reality, these nonlethal weapons can cause permanent eye damage, eye injury, discomfort, pain, loss of vision and blindness.
Ravi D. Goel, MD, a cataract surgeon in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and clinical spokesman for the American Academy of Ophthalmology, actively joined the AAO #NoRubberBullets #NotOneMoreEye campaign to end the use of rubber bullets to control or disperse crowds because “while classified as nonlethal, they are not non-blinding.”
“When the protests started and we saw on
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