#teargas — Public Fediverse posts

Iran hangs 2 protesters in public, crowd cries ‘dishonorable’ as security fires tear gas

Iran publicly hanged two young men Tuesday over their alleged roles in January’s nationwide anti-government protests, as onlookers…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #AbolfazlSepahiBadjani #AlikhaniSquare #breakingnews #Iran #Iranianauthorities #Iranianstatemedia #NCRI #securityforce #securityforces #securitypersonnel #ShahidAlikhaniSquare #teargas
https://www.newsbeep.com/671130/

« French riot police funded by UK taxpayers used #teargas on asylum seekers in a bid to stop them from boarding a boat in which three women were later found dead.

Footage and photographs show CS #gas canisters being fired towards groups of people near Dunkirk at 4am on Thursday. At 6am, three women were found #dead in a boat near the same beach. » BASTARDS 😡😡😡

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/30/small-boat-deaths-channel-crossing-attempt

CJP Protest: Ranvir Shorey, Riteish Deshmukh React After Students Tear-Gassed & Lathi-Charged?

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://in.mashable.com/culture/112137/cjp-protest-ranvir-shorey-riteish-deshmukh-react-after-students-tear-gassed-lathi-charged

U.S. Lawmakers Demand Reforms to #Immigration Officers’ Use of #TearGas and #PepperSpray

3 US senators have called for an overhaul of federal agents’ use of tear gas & pepper spray, citing a ProPublica investigation that found at least 79 children were left screaming, coughing or hurt by these chemicals during Trump’s immigration crackdown.

Lawmakers said the findings showed more restrictions are needed to avoid injuring bystanders — with chemical munitions.

https://www.propublica.org/article/lawmakers-demand-reforms-tear-gas-children

"ProPublica identified 79 #children across the country who have been harmed by #teargas or pepper spray as immigration officers dramatically stepped up their use during President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown" https://www.propublica.org/article/kids-tear-gas-trump-immigration-crackdown

"ProPublica identified 79 #children across the country who have been harmed by #teargas or pepper spray as immigration officers dramatically stepped up their use during President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown" https://www.propublica.org/article/kids-tear-gas-trump-immigration-crackdown

"This Podcast Will Kill You", | Ep 207 Tear Gas: How can a chemical weapon be “humane”?

Short answer It can't.

Here or wherever you get your podcasts: https://www.podbean.com/ea/dir-hfuqh-2cd0a0b1

#podcasts #ThisPodcastWillKillYou #teargas #chemicalweapons

“It’s all just a little bit of history repeating.”
- Shirley Bassey

( "Tear Gas: the most effective agent used by employers to persuade their employees that the interests of capital and labor are identical." - T-Bone Slim )

https://www.propublica.org/article/charles-mauldin-selma-tear-gas

#civilrights #ICEout #Photography #Selma #TearGas #VotingRightsAct

Resistance, Remembrance, and Comunidad: Cinco de Mayo, Mount Pleasant, and the Rebuilding That Erases

Cinco de Mayo is often misunderstood in the United States. It is reduced to a marketing holiday, a day of beer specials, paper flags, mariachi clichés, and the shallow consumption of Mexican culture without the burden of remembering Mexican history. But the heart of Cinco de Mayo is not consumption. It is resistance.

The day remembers the Battle of Puebla, May 5, 1862, when Mexican forces defeated the French army, then one of the most powerful military forces in the world. It was not Mexican Independence Day. It was not the founding of Mexico. It was a day when a people under pressure from empire stood their ground. It was a day when the powerful were resisted by those who were supposed to lose. It was, at its deepest level, a day about memory, dignity, land, sovereignty, and the refusal to be swallowed by imperial appetite. (MySA)

That is why, for me, Cinco de Mayo cannot be separated from another May 5: May 5, 1991, in Washington, D.C.

I was there.

Read the rest of the essay at PeaceGrooves.com.

https://youtu.be/8gTbRow_PjQ?si=WohJ4l5UdxAjJCCL
#lespresso #labuso #truthbomb #iof #babykillers #rapists #idf #israel #zionism #naziism #trumpcrimefamily #israel #netanyahu #zionism #war #warcrimes #gaza #iran #lebanon #uspol #netanyahu #gaza #freepalestine #MeeadAbualRub #palestine #wallandsettlementauthority #soba #IdnaalKhalil #israelisettlers #iof #israelioccupyingforces #AbuAlRub #armedsettlers #intimidation #teargas

California Professor Acquitted of Assault After Removing Tear Gas at Immigration Protest

📰 Original title: Man Trump Admin Targeted For Removing Tear Gas From Crowd Found Not Guilty

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/california-professor-acquitted-of-assault-after-removing-tear-gas-at-immigration-protest/?redirpost=bf239e7d-a656-4150-9473-23db2f073ecb

#justice #teargas #immigration #trial

Maimed, Deafened, Blinded

Fired at close enough range, so-called less lethal rounds easily kill or maim.
“Less Lethal Specialty Munitions” =
chlorobenzalmalononitrile - CS - chemical weapon used by U.S. on Vietnam is banned for military use; oleoresin capsicum - OC - derived from chili peppers.

https://theintercept.com/2026/04/03/less-lethal-chemical-weapons-tear-gas-protests/?

#Capitalism #CBP #ChemicalWeapons #DHS #ICEout #Protests #TearGas

Will #DomesticTerrorism charges be brought against these #AntiICE #protestors?

#ICE enforcement action leads to #protest, violent clashes in #SouthBurlington, #Vermont

by Derek Brouwer, Liam Elder-Connors, Zoe McDonald, March 12, 2026

"A tense, day-long standoff outside a South Burlington, Vermont house ended Wednesday night with federal immigration agents removing three people inside and a series of violent clashes between police and hundreds of #activists who tried to impede the apprehension.

"It marked the first major confrontation between protesters and federal immigration authorities in Vermont. Federal law enforcement deployed #TearGas and #flashbangs on a normally busy street in the state’s second largest city to disperse the activists who had surrounded their vehicles. Roughly 60 local and state law enforcement officers were also on scene, though the departments sought to distance themselves from ICE’s conduct.

"The incident began when a man fled Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who had been surveilling a Dorset Street residence where he was staying.

"According to an ICE affidavit, the subject of the warrant was Deyvi Daniel Corona-Sanchez, a Mexico native who was removed from the United States in 2022, and later illegally reentered the country. In January, Corona-Sanchez was arrested by Middlebury police and charged with drunk driving, the affidavit says.

"Following a multi-vehicle crash, Corona-Sanchez escaped to a house on Dorset Street, authorities said.

"A growing number of protesters and police assembled outside throughout the day as immigration authorities waited for a criminal warrant to enter and arrest him.

"A neighbor, Richard Landsman, said an Ecuadoran family with two children had lived in the house for roughly a year. At one point in the afternoon, people helped a child leave the house; they were driven away.

"When the warrant came through after roughly nine hours, federal agents approached the front door with #TacticalGear and weapons drawn. They were supported by #VermontStatePolice troopers.

"Police wrenched away protesters blocking the front entrance and ICE agents broke down the door. Federal agents removed three people from inside, forcing them into an unmarked car. They attempted to drive off, but protesters linked arms and blocked the street. Confrontations ensued, and the agents eventually managed to drive off by running over a median and exiting via a driveway."

Read more:
https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2026-03-12/ice-enforcement-action-leads-to-protest-violent-clashes-in-south-burlington-vermont

#ResistICE #SilencingDissent #AntiTerrorismLaws #CriminalizingProtest #Resistance #USPol #VTPol #ACAB

#Trump administration appeals #TearGas restrictions near #Portland #ICE building

https://www.opb.org/article/2026/03/16/trump-administration-portland-oregon-tear-gas/

U.S. Department of Justice attorneys submitted a notice of appeal mid-afternoon Monday, a boilerplate document signaling they will lodge a formal appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.

https://www.opb.org/article/2026/03/09/federal-judge-limits-crowd-control-devices-portland-ice-building/

Judge limits crowd control devices at #Portland #ICE building; federal officers must identify themselves

A federal judge in #Oregon ruled that he would continue to strictly limit federal use of #teargas and other crowd control weapons on protesters outside the building in Portland.

DHS officers had an unwritten policy to use excessive force on #nonviolent protesters, in part to chill their #FirstAmendment rights, District Court Judge Michael Simon found.

#ORpol #pdx

City of #Portland temporarily bans #TearGas at #ICE facility as leaders seek permanent change

https://www.koin.com/news/portland/temporary-ban-tear-gas-ice-facility-fee/

The City of Portland is working to define a fee schedule and guidelines for detention facilities, such as the ICE building, to reduce the use of tear gas and protect Portlanders.

Meet 21-year-old playing #bagpipes at #US #protests

He played in both #LA & #Portland (once following the death of Alex #Pretti) Duffy is playing in the face of #violent tactics to #suppress #demonstrations against #trump – especially when #TearGas is deployed

When asked how #police react, Duffy laughs, and says: “They’ve reacted pretty negatively”.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25873187.meet-21-year-old-playing-bagpipes-us-protests/

#PoliceState #dictatorship #authoritarianism #trump #USAggression #lawlessness #fascism #oppression #Orwellian

Public Health Experts Sound Alarm as Feds Keep Deploying Tear Gas Near Kids

https://murica.website/2026/02/public-health-experts-sound-alarm-as-feds-keep-deploying-tear-gas-near-kids/

Following the temporary restraining order issued against federal agents’ use of teargas and other “less lethals” for 14 days, Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield has submitted arguments and evidence in support of a lawsuit brought forth by ACLU of Oregon on behalf of protesters and journalists that challenges violations of the First Amendment and the use of excessive force by federal agents outside the Portland ICE building.

The evidence shows that federal agents tear gassed protesters, including children, elderly folks, disabled people, and pets, repeatedly during the weekend of January 31.

They are urging the court to issue a preliminary injunction against federal agents' “unlawful use of tear gas, pepper balls, and other crowd-control munitions.”

The district court will hold a three-day hearing on the preliminary injunction motion, which will begin on March 2.

Thread from the weekend in question here:
https://kolektiva.social/@alissaazar/115992642852082848

And here: https://kolektiva.social/@alissaazar/115998976092458588

#Portland #pdx #chemicalweapons #teargas

Neighbors of #Portland #ICE facility to go before federal judge over chronic #TearGas

https://www.opb.org/article/2026/02/13/neighbors-portland-ice-facility-tear-gas-lawsuit/

A lawsuit over chemical munitions seeping into residences at a low-income apartment complex across from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland is set for a hearing Friday.

Angry and weary #PDX residents sue Feds over capricious #ICE use of #TearGas that filled their homes during sustained protests

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/climate/ice-portland-tear-gas-pollution-health-lawsuit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LVA.vB_w.TNkehQoF2plv&smid=url-share #GiftLink

So, I'm wondering if wearing good eye protection and a half-face respirator with appropriate filters would work. Has anyone used that combo?

Best #GasMasks
On #TearGas, and what it means when the government uses it on civilians.

by Sarah Jeong
Jan 29, 2026, 8:00 AM EST

Excerpt: "I was tear gassed by the government for the first time in July 2020 at one of the many #BlackLivesMatter protests that broke out all over the country. The feeling is excruciating, like your lungs are trying to kill you from the inside out. The sting in your eyes is painful, too. But oddly, after you’ve been tear gassed enough times, you mostly just resent the inconvenience of having to stand around and involuntarily gasp and sob. That summer, I learned the art of walking out of a cloud of tear gas — briskly, but not too briskly, lest you lose breath control and take in a huge huff of aerosolized pain.

"I thought about this five years later, as I watched Trump Attorney General Pam Bondi appear on Fox News after Customs and Border Protection agents killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. 'How did these people go out and get gas masks?' she asked, incredulously. 'These protesters — would you know how to walk out on the street and buy a gas mask, right now? Think about that.' "

Learn more:
https://www.theverge.com/policy/868571/best-gas-masks

#USPol #WorldPol #ProtestSafely #Resistance #Fascism #Authoritarianism

Did you know you need a #gasmask?

On #teargas, and what it means when the government uses it on civilians, by @sarahjeong

"I was #teargassed by the government for the first time in July 2020 at one of the many Black Lives Matter protests that broke out all over the country.

There isn’t a lot of reliable information out there about how to buy a gas mask, especially for the specific purpose of living under state repression. But hopefully after reading this guide you’ll feel equipped to make an educated decision."

https://www.theverge.com/policy/868571/best-gas-masks

New- article from this past weekend is out now where a rally organized by a coalition of labor unions and community members turned violent when federal agents unleashed tear gas, rubber bullets, and other munitions on Portlanders, including young children, highlighting the deepening militarization of law enforcement and the community’s unwavering resistance.

I spoke with multiple people who were on the ground, including a street medic who said “I’ve been working in this field for over 8 years now and I’ve seen a lot of shit, but that was truly one of the most terrible things I’ve witnessed and I never thought that I’d have to see actual children getting gassed like that, but here we are I suppose.”

“This couple with a stroller emerged from the cloud with their maybe 2 or 3 year old daughter sitting barely conscious in that stroller. The parents were coughing and could barely walk, couldn’t see anything, this poor little girl was covered in her own vomit and sputum and mucus was pouring from her nose. She was just sitting there barely conscious, wheezing heavily, barely breathing through the wheezing…”

The medic told me that they had treated at least four children that day, adding "I’m never ever going to forget the sounds of those kids wailing in pain hacking up a lung in full panic mode. It was one of the worst things I’ve ever seen in my 8+ years of street medicine and EMS work."

https://www.wewillfreeus.org/portlands-labor-against-ice-march-faces-brutal-federal-response/

#Portland #pdx #chemicalweapons #teargas

Foul and Fowl

Foul

ICE continues to terrorize the Twin Cities, particularly Minneapolis. You have probably seen video and heard stories. Another person was shot this last week. DHS is saying he attacked them and then tried to run away so they shot him in the leg. Video and witness evidence is now coming out that reveals the situation may have been completely different—surprise! Don’t believe any story coming from the federal government regarding what is happening here. 

ICE is operating outside the law. They detain U.S. Citizens. ICE detained a 17-year-old kid working his shift at my neighborhood Target. He is a U.S. citizen and had his passport in his pocket, but ICE refused to verify this until 8 miles later when they then dumped him out of their SUV in a Walmart parking lot.

Then there is Garrison Gibson, a legal Liberian immigrant. ICE unlawfully busted down his front door with a battering ram after he refused to leave the house or open the door because ICE did not have a signed judicial warrant. Gibson was home with his wife, daughter and niece.

There are confirmed reports of ICE blocking in the cars of observers and then charging them with obstruction. ICE is also going to protesters’ houses trying to intimidate them and making threats. Then they are using tear gas on peaceful protesters and others who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. One family’s car was tear gassed and their 6-month-old baby who was in the car stopped breathing and had to be rushed to the hospital. Now they have to pay hospital bills and make extensive repairs to their car. A Judge ruled Friday that ICE is not allowed to use tear gas on peaceful protesters. Not sure that will even mean anything.

Meanwhile Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General, has issued an alert regarding DHS digital surveillance and how to protect your privacy. The state, Minneapolis, and St Paul are suing the Federal government citing constitutional violations of the first and tenth amendments. And the Department of Justice has launched investigations of Governor Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on the grounds that they are impeding operations of the federal government. However, Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who murdered Renee Good, is not being investigated or charged with anything by the federal government.

But Minnesotans will not be silenced. If anything there are more and more people out on the streets and providing mutual aid. Monday night James and I did a virtual ICE Watch training from States at the Core via Defend612. There were 1,700 people on the call. They continue to offer trainings every few days. They made it a point to say that what is happening has nothing to do with immigration. Immigration is the excuse the Trump administration is using to intimidate and militarize cities in order to consolidate authoritarian power. I have not gone out on neighborhood patrol–it’s a bit challenging to do by bicycle in winter–but I carry a whistle with me whenever I leave the house and keep a lookout for ICE so I can make reports to my rapid response group.

People here are standing up against heavily armed and sometimes poorly trained agents. They are fighting back with video documentation, whistles, car horns, peaceful protest that includes marching in the streets singing, and ok, sometimes throwing snowballs. People are also pouring water on streets and sidewalks where ICE is gathering making some real ice. There are lots of videos and photos going around of ICE agents slipping and falling.

We are now getting an arctic blast, it is that time of the year here. Temperatures are going sub-zero F / -17C. I saw someone report today that they were at Duluth Trading Company behind a couple men who were spending $5,000 on cold weather gear.

Apparently, defense tactics are working because The New Republic is reporting that the Department of Homeland Security is having trouble finding agents willing to come to Minneapolis. There are currently 3,000 agents in the state, mainly centered in the Twin Cities. Now Trump is threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act. There are 1,500 active-duty military troops on standby in Alaska ready to invade my state. It is a great irony that the President is interested in protecting protesters in Iran while suppressing protests in his own country.

I have a friend who is Vietnamese and a U.S. citizen who is worried she will be stopped by ICE. I have another friend who is a citizen and immigrant from Brazil who is also terrified.

If you are wondering what you can do to support Minnesota, advocate with your electeds to stop funding ICE and to stand up against the Trump administration. If you are looking to make a monetary donation to help support the immigrant community here, some good groups are Isaiah, Neighborhood House, Minnesota Immigrant Rights Committee, and ACLU Minnesota. Stand With Minnesota has additional lists of places who are supporting people with rental assistance, food, diapers, and other supplies.

As if all that isn’t enough, Jake Lang, white supremacist and pardoned January 6th insurrectionist, came to Minneapolis yesterday and held a rally downtown outside city hall. There were more counterprotestors than there were people at the rally. He was sprayed with silly string, but things got a bit out of control when people began pelting him with snowballs and water balloons. Lang is now claiming on social media that he was “lynched” and stabbed. He did not go to any hospital afterwards and photos show him leaving the rally with scrapes and bruises but no apparent stab wounds.

Fowl

I think I have mentioned here a few months ago after Mrs. Dashwood, the last of the original Dashwood chicken flock, died, that James and I had decided we are not going to welcome any additional chickens to our dwindling—now 2 chickens—flock. I’ve been feeling a little sad about that because I enjoy sharing my life with chickens, but we decided since we don’t keep them for their eggs, the growing expense of taking care of them just wasn’t worth it.

Then two weeks ago I got an email from Eggplant, the place we bought the Dashwoods and the Nuggets, letting me know that chick orders are now open. I clicked, just to look at the pictures. Honest! But gosh darn, if those birds aren’t adorable and beautiful. I started thinking maybe…and floated the idea to James.

He frowned but said he would think about it.

A week later I checked in with him on his thoughts and he said he was fine with it but not all that interested. I said we both had to actually want them. He said he’d think about it some more.

Early in the week I checked in again and he said he was a go! Friday I placed our order for two chicks, a speckled Sussex (James’s choice) and a pearl onyx (my choice). They will be The Witches. James has already named the Sussex Nanny Ogg after one of the witches in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books. I have named the pearl onyx Baba Yaga who lives in a chicken-legged hut. We will be welcoming the baby chicks on April 3rd.

It’s nice to have something good to look forward to.

I’m behind on comments and blog visiting—been kind of distracted! But I am endeavoring to catch up over the next days.

Enjoy this Woody Guthrie song to send you on your way: All You Fascists Bound to Lose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwcKwGS7OSQ

#BabaYaga #Chickens #fascism #Immigration #mutualAid #NannyOgg #protests #tearGas #WoodyGuthrie

This quote is from a different event, but worth calling out. I recommend reading the full story.

//Vasquez said it was especially terrifying to see police teargas reproductive justice protests, given the concerns that exposure can potentially cause abortion or miscarriage, which in some states can lead to criminalization and arrest: “Knowing the aftermath of being teargassed, it’s like watching a car crash you’ve already been through.”//
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#Teargas #GeorgeFloydProtests #TeargasHealthEffects

Tear gas is not benign. This story analyzes its overuse and consequences from the 2020 George Floyd protests in Portland.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2023/apr/17/teargas-effect-portland-police-investigation

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#Teargas #PortlandProtests #GeorgeFloydProtests #TeargasIsNotBenign