“People came over to help and got me on the curb. A medic was called, who cut off my clothes. In my leg was what felt like a five centimeter hole with muscle hanging out of it and blood all down my leg. The medic put a tourniquet on it, and a journalist I was with took me to ER.”
This is America.
It’s not “less than lethal.” It’s “less lethal.” Less-than implies they’re not lethal, when they are. Even a taser or tear gas is lethal. See: the numerous people who’ve been shocked into cardiac episodes, or people getting burned / caught in fires.
“Less lethal”. Still lethal.
Well, I did say “less than lethal or less lethal”