#teargas — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #teargas, aggregated by home.social.
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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
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Public Health Experts Sound Alarm as Feds Keep Deploying Tear Gas Near Kids
“We don’t know the long-term effects. We don’t understand their effects on children,” said a pediatrician. -
#Teargas and #pepperspray can have lasting #health effects
Evidence is mounting for longer-term impacts beyond immediate pain and tears
“These are chemical weapons that are harmful to the human body and harmful to particularly vulnerable folks, like children,” says Asha Hassan, an epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota. “We know that tear gas causes tears, but it also causes other things that are a lot more severe,” she says — even death.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tear-gas-pepper-spray-health-effects
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#NorthMinneapolis Chases Out #ICE
A Firsthand Account of the Response to Another ICE Shooting
2026-01-15 via #CrimethInc
Excerpt: "Some overzealous cameraman—I couldn’t tell if it was the same guy from before—muscled his way through the crowd to get a shot of the ICE vehicle receiving this treatment. 'No video!' someone roared at him. 'If you let him take pictures of this shit, somebody is going to jail!' A few people forcefully encouraged the cameraman to turn around and leave the area."
#SilencingDissent #Authoritarianism #USPol #ICEOut #Minneapolis #TearGas #FuckICE #ICEOutForGood #Fascism
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#BorderPatrol agents seen at a #protest near #Minneapolis, #Minnesota, appear to be a mix of the agency’s special response team and its Border Patrol Tactical Unit, also known as #BORTAC.
BORTAC agents are *generally* “trained” in crowd control & crowd dispersion, as well as other tactics to protect property. #PepperSpray & #TearGas canisters are among tools agents have used for crowd control.
#ReneeNicoleGood #Trump #law #murder #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality
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US Dist Judge Georgia Alexakis heard testimony 2 eks ago about what happened after the Oct 4 incident in Brighton Park, which led to a standoff between protesters and federal agents who deployed #PepperSpray balls & #TearGas into the crowd.
Solicitor General John Sauer has also pointed to it while arguing #SCOTUS should let #Trump deploy #NationalGuard troops to #Chicago [these Trump attys🙄].
#law #immigration #judiciary #DueProcess #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #Tyranny #ICE #CBP
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“If we want to be able to see what’s happening, we’ll have to be in the front”
"Police hate to be outflanked—they can’t risk being surrounded themselves."
https://crimethinc.com/2025/01/28/its-safer-in-the-front-taking-the-offensive-against-tyranny
#fear #frontLine #struggles #Bush #GeorgeWBush #IraqWar #comrades #collectives #crowdManagement #WashingtonDC #anarchists #antiFascists #territory #kettling #responsibility #tearGas #agency #demos #demonstrations #protests
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In Backlash to Campus #ProPalestine #Protests, Echoes of #StandingRock and the Global Crackdown on #ClimateProtest
The use of #militarized police and “#antiterrorism” laws against #activists is not new in the U.S.
by Alleen Brown, Drilled
This story is co-published with the Center for Media and Democracy and #CensoredNewsMay 3, 2024
"As soon as a single #Palestinian activist showed up at an anti-#DakotaAccessPipeline camp on the edge of the Standing Rock reservation in 2016, intelligence analysts for the mercenary security firm #TigerSwan were on alert.
"El-Zabri, the Palestinian activist surveilled at Standing Rock, was among 79 people arrested this week while protesting at the #UniversityOfTexas at #Austin. 'It really felt like the same as Standing Rock, when we were facing the police,' he said.
"''There was a whole army that looked like it was at war in #RiotGear. They eventually used #TearGas and #PepperSpray.'
"'They're afraid of what we have to say and the people that we can touch,' said Cornell senior Yanenowi Logan, who is Deer Clan from the #SenecaNation and has been negotiating with campus administrators.
"Logan said that by standing up for Gazans, she and other Native organizers are also standing up for themselves. 'We want to be able to show them that, hey, we're still here,' she said. 'You can try to kill us. You can burn our crops. You can do whatever you want to do, but we're still going to persist.'"
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/05/drilled-in-backlash-to-campus-pro.html
#Genocide #Israel #Palestine #FreePalestine #GazaSolidarity #NoDAPL #Colonialism