police weapons

This is a 40mm foam head round used by the police in St. Paul on 9/2/08 and collected at 9:00 pm on St. Peter between 6th and 7th street. Most of the orange foam rubber has shattered off on the head.

This is a 37mm impact round used by the police in St. Paul on 9/2/08 and collected at 9:00 pm on St. Peter between 6th and 7th street. The round has a thin exterior of hard plastic, and a heavy metal core. The back of the projectile is being shown to display the inside core. The projectile is plastic-bagged in order to prevent chemical contamination.

This is a fragment of a wooden baton round used by the police in St. Paul on 9/2/08 and collected at 9:00 pm on St. Peter between 6th and 7th street. These rounds are designed to be "skip-fired;" shot at an angle to the ground so that the projectile bounces and fragments into the people targeted.

These are the bottom hard rubber fragments of a flash-bang grenade used by the police in St. Paul on 9/2/08 and collected at 9:00 pm on St. Peter between 6th and 7th street. The flash-bang grenade contains a low charge explosive which detonates with a loud explosion.