Joshua Wong 黃之鋒  😷Verified account

3. Among all these new weapons, the name "sponge round" should be the most misleading one. Not those you can find in your kitchen sponge, sponge rounds are actually made of solid neoprene.

4. It is a kind of synthetic rubber and is commonly found in wetsuits. Extremely powerful, highly fatal and deadly penetrability through metals. Worse still, the green-nosed round used in Hong Kong is even more powerful than those in the US and Israel.

5. The round contains a crushable foam nose with a powder payload which can hold Oleoresin capsicum (OC or pepper spray), tear gas (CS) and marking powder.

6. According to the safety instructions provided by the suppliers, sponge grenades can only be used to "target the large muscle groups of the buttocks, thigh, and even the knees of the subject".

7. If targeting the subject’s head, neck and upper torso or shooting the target at closer than 10 meters, it can cause severe or fatal injuries. However, footages reflect that Police violated the instructions and targeted the protestors' head at eye level.

8. It causes traumatic bleeding and their helmets blown off yards away.......Rubber rounds have become more powerful. Hong Kong Police have replaced their rubber rounds with another model "MP-4-R3 Hard Rubber Batons".

9. While1202 rubber rocket is a single baton round, MP-4-R3 can fire 3 hard rubber batons in each shot and cause more damages. Weapon suppliers warn that MP-4-R3 should not be targeted at the subject directly and can cause traumatic and fatal injuries if fired at close range.

10. The suppliers also warn that, as MP-4-R3 is explosive, it can cause blast or crush-type injuries. Explosion happens when firing at flammable objects or open flames.