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Pittsburgh protester who lost eye from police projectile harassed by officer at court hearing
Alex Horell [Source: Twitter]
Horell believes that he was likely shot by a rubber bullet, telling the
Pittsburgh City Paper, “I really distinctly remember being hit, that is what I really remember. Then I remember people shouting ‘Man down!’ and not realizing that it was about me. I remember people looking at my face coming to, like they were looking at a dead person. That is a pretty vivid memory.”
“The doctors did say it was the equivalent of a baseball bat to the face. It’s a really dark irony that a police brutality protest is met with more brutality, and it doesn’t seem to matter.”
Photo: Tim Murray Alex Horell Alex Horell lost his right eye last year. During a Black Lives Matter protest in Downtown Pittsburgh on May 30, 2020, Pittsburgh Police fired a less-lethal projectile either a rubber bullet, a bean bag, or a sponge round at Horell, striking him in the face. Horell, who lives in Pittsburgh s Morningside neighborhood, believes it was a rubber bullet, after initially thinking it was a beanbag. “I really distinctly remember being hit, that is what I really remember,” says Horell, who says he blacked out momentarily after being struck by the object. “Then I remember people shouting ‘Man down!’ and not realizing that it was about me. I remember people looking at my face coming to, like they were looking at a dead person. That is a pretty vivid memory.”