Editing Plastic bullet (section)

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During the weekend of 20 April 2001, at the anti-FTAA protest in Quebec City, Canada, plastic bullets were used by police forces against protesters attempting to breach the security fences. Plastic bullets were used against protesters at a protest against [[globalization]] in [[Quebec]] in 2001, where one individual reportedly underwent an emergency tracheotomy after being hit in the throat.<ref name="NY Times G8">{{cite web|title=When Scholarship and Politics Collided at Yale |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/28/nyregion/28anarchist.html|publisher=The New York Times Company|access-date=16 December 2010|author=KAREN W. ARENSON |author-link=Karen W. Arenson |date=28 December 2005}}</ref><ref name="Alternet Fortress">{{cite web|title=Fortress Quebec: A Return to Tear Gas and Violence |url= http://www.alternet.org/story/10759/fortress_quebec%3A_a_return_to_tear_gas_and_violence |publisher=Alternet|access-date=4 September 2014|author=Mark Engler|date=22 April 2001}}</ref>

Plastic bullets were approved for policing in England and Wales in June 2001.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}} Plastic bullets were also authorized for G8 summit protests in Gleneagles, Scotland in July 2005.<ref name="Scotland G8">{{cite news |title=Ring of steel to protect city from G8 mayhem |first1=Hamish |last1= Macdonell |first2= Louise |last2= Gray |url=http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/edinburgh/Ring-of-steel-to-protect.2598954.jp |newspaper=[[The Scotsman]] |location=Edinburgh |date=29 January 2005 |access-date=12 September 2011}}</ref> A plastic bullet was successfully used to disarm a hostage taker armed with a [[machete]] in [[Dorchester, Dorset|Dorchester]], England in November 2002.<ref>{{Cite web
  | title      = Police plastic bullet ends siege by machete man
  | work  = [[The Daily Telegraph]]
  | date       = 2002-11-25
  | url        = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1414224/Police-plastic-bullet-ends-siege-by-machete-man.html
  | access-date = 2011-08-09}}</ref>

In September 2004, seven picketing shipbuilders were injured in a tear-gas and plastic bullet assault in Cadiz, Spain.<ref>{{cite web|title=Shipbuilders in Spain strike in privatisation protest|url=http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/sep2004/wkrs-s17.shtml|publisher=World Socialist Web Site|access-date=5 February 2011|date=17 September 2004}}</ref>

In 1990, Kenyan [[riot police]] raided a room at the [[University of Nairobi]] beating students with batons. A fleeing female student was shot in the stomach with a plastic bullet.<ref>{{cite news|title=Kenya:Brutal Seventh|url=http://www.economist.com/node/151645|access-date=4 February 2011|newspaper=The Economist|date=17 July 1997|quote=a female student was shot in the stomach with a plastic bullet as she tried to flee}}</ref>

Venezuelan police and soldiers fired plastic bullets at student protesters in Caracas in December 2010.<ref>{{cite web
| url          = https://archive.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2010/12/23/venezuelan_students_protest_university_law/
| title        = Venezuelan students protest against university law
| last         = Sanchez
| first        = Fabiola
| date         = 2010-12-23
| website      = boston.com
| publisher    = Associated Press
| access-date  = 2023-03-05
| quote        = Police and soldiers fired water cannons and plastic bullets as thousands of students protested against a law passed by Venezuela's congress that increases government powers over the country's universities.
| archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20230315185831/https://archive.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2010/12/23/venezuelan_students_protest_university_law/
| archive-date = 2023-03-15
| url-status = live}}
</ref>

Foam-tipped plastic bullets were employed by [[U.S. Marines]] in a trial in the [[Iraq War]] but were determined to be ineffectual.<ref name=disarmament>{{cite web|title=Non-lethal technologies—an overview|url=http://www.unidir.org/pdf/articles/pdf-art2217.pdf|access-date=5 February 2011|author=Nick LEWER and Neil DAVISON|year=2005|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727192615/http://www.unidir.org/pdf/articles/pdf-art2217.pdf|archive-date=27 July 2011}}</ref>