It’s been a brutal tactic deployed by local and federal law enforcement officials time and again over the past year: using teargas, rubber bullets and pepper spray to control protests outside ICE detention centers or during enforcement operations.

Now, a new report lays bare the scale of the use of these crowd control weapons during anti-immigration demonstrations across the US, including hundreds of incidents that resulted in lasting and traumatic injuries.

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    22 days ago

    as the headline implies, the use of these toxic & brutal crowd control measures is synonymous with misuse

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    22 days ago

    They are more willing to hurt you today than yesterday. Keep that in mind when you join a protest. We are not in same world we used to be.