Stinger CS rubber ball grenade fragment from the 2020 DC social justice protests

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

This is a piece of a Stinger CS rubber ball grenade, used to disperse high velocity rubber pellets, fired by federal police against demonstrators near Lafayette Square in Washington, DC on June 1, 2020. It consists of a hard black rubber half-sphere with a short wide tube projecting from the side. Around the lip of the tube is a partially torn white sticker. Around the lip of the half-sphere are orange fragments with white text. This lip is broken and jagged all around the edge.

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