Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith characterized proposed restrictions on less-lethal projectiles as “ludicrous,” though the restrictions would merely bring the Sheriff’s department in line with the policies of the San Jose Police Department. The concern around such projectiles was highlighted during the George Floyd protests, in which individuals were seriously injured or maimed by the projectiles. In Sacramento, for example, a woman peacefully attending a protest was blinded in one eye after being struck in the eye by a rubber bullet in 2020. A 59-year-old woman peacefully attending a protest in La Mesa in 2020 ended up in a coma after police shot her in the head with some sort of projectile.