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Police Tear Gas Routs Demonstrators In Skirmish at Department of Justice
driving them from in front of the Justice Department with tear gas and clubs. They arrested 50 demonstrators as Attorney General John Mitchell watched from his office window. Demonstrators had ...
Business Insider4y
Tear gas is banned from war — but police still shoot it at protesters, who cough and bleed as a result. At least one has lost an eye.
Police have dispatched tear gas on crowds across the US this week. On Monday evening, shortly before the president emerged from the White House for a photo op, tear gas was dispersed on peaceful ...
Business Insider4y
The 100-year rise of the $3 billion tear gas industry
Narrator: Much of the coverage of the 2020 protests against police misconduct in the United States has looked a lot like this, shrouded in a thick cloud of tear gas. Some of the sounds in this ...
Capitol Hill Seattle Blog3d
Seattle setting new rules for how police use crowd control weapons like pepper spray, blast balls, and tear gas
The Seattle City Council is set to approve new rules for how the Seattle Police Department can use crowd control weapons. CHS reported here on the legislation needed to replace SPD’s crowd control ...
komonews4d
City leaders to vote on tear gas, less-lethal weapons for Seattle police
SEATTLE — Rules around how Seattle police can control crowds with less-lethal weapons like blast balls, tear gas and pepper spray hinge on a final vote by city councilmembers on Tuesday.
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What effects can tear gas have on your health and the environment?
Some 10,000 rounds of tear gas have been fired by police on the streets of Hong Kong since protests first broke out in June. In some cases, hundreds of tears gas canisters have been deployed in a ...