The police arrive and shoot the protesters with bean bag rounds.

Officers and animal control workers managed to scare the bears off using bean bag rounds.

A bean bag round can severely injure or kill in a wide variety of ways.

The bean bag round is by far the most common less-lethal round used.

Non-lethal bean bag rounds were fired at his vehicle during the short pursuit.

Bean bag rounds, rubber bullets, pepper balls, and similar would be stopped in a few inches by water.

Bean bag rounds and rubber bullets were used to subdue the gunman.

Police tased him, and then shot him with a bean bag round fired from a shotgun.

A rubber bullet or bean bag round fired from a twelve gauge shotgun can deliver a painful message.

The Oakland Police Department released a statement confirming the use of bean bag rounds.

Bean bag rounds (used along with shotgun)

Rubber slugs or rubber buckshot are similar in principle to the bean bag rounds.

Bean bag rounds are flat envelopes of fabric containing lead shot, typically fired out of a 12-gauge shotgun.

Demonstrators threw rocks and bottles at police, who returned fire with bean bag rounds, tear gas and smoke grenades.

Ortlund said the officers utilized a nonlethal bean bag round fired into the air to effectively frighten the bears back up the mountain.

They were controlled by tear gas and bean bag rounds, one of the first times bean bag bullets have been used in Australia.

ISP Trooper Sergeants are also issued a shotgun to fire bean bag rounds.

Other options: In common use in the US are bean bag rounds and sock rounds .

"We push them out using rubber bullets, bean bag rounds and cracker rounds," Mr. Manley said.

And police responded by deploying smoke, tear gas and bean bag rounds, City Administrator Deanna Santanta said.

Oakland demonstrators vowed on Wednesday to return to their protest site just hours after police cleared hundreds of people from the streets with tear gas and bean bag rounds.

Bean bag rounds are often used in the USA Network spy series 'Burn Notice (TV series)'.

He was later seen being carried into an ambulance after police ended the siege at the Queen Street Mall by opening fire with the special 'less lethal' bean bag rounds.

These include Tasers, pepper spray canisters, shotguns loaded with bean bag rounds, Pepperball guns, stinger grenades, flash bang grenades, and tear gas.

As the now-scattered demonstration ground on into the late afternoon, police again opened fire on a small crowd in the northern part of Pittsburgh, using what the security forces said were non-lethal "bean bag rounds".