Tear gas risks and protection

Chemical warfare. These are NOT benign chemical agents. The pepper balls have velocity as well. Police can’t act this way with impunity why can so-called Federal agents?

A law banning them from wearing masks would be a start. I wonder if it’s possible to pass a law banning trump from pardoning them and his freak show administration.

They always have the drones in Atlanta too. Thinking of a bulk order of fake noses and glasses for the next protest. Gotta slow down the facial recognition.

Is another method they're trying to use to intimidate protesters this time targeting women.

Protesters have to show up with shields-masks of some kind to negate these fucking thugs

What might be a stupid question... are there ways of filtering / minimizing the inhalation of said noxious stuff? (Other than with a WWII-Era Gas Mask, of course.)

They just pepper sprayed the faces of the people who didn't want them to shoot a woman in the face. They are going to open fire on us soon

yes. tangentially, it seems a lot of them aren’t vaccinated, so that’s fun.

Always, always, always comes down to the Congressional seats math, which shows that they can't yet get the bill passed.

If I bring a baby to a protest and you bring a gun and shoot me and the baby, who has made the protest a violent riot?

Too bad some protestors can't send some tear gas their way.

I've noticed that. As someone who's permanently immune impaired, I still wear masks and did before COVID in crowded places, since 2002. Normally I celebrate those who wear masks, but these guys are thugs and their masks are part of a hiding strategy--no names or badge numbers on uniforms, no faces.

Can’t this be considered assault? Can anyone dressed up in camouflage just go up to someone else and spray them in the face with chemical irritants? What am I missing here?

I don't think they are allowed to use pepper-spray. why don't they get arrested by the real police?

Also no reason for them to have masks, if the Dems had leadership worth the name they would bring out a bill to ban masks for all law enforcement. But perhaps not , it there's anything that screams FASCIST it's a thug with a machine gun and a mask.

They’re not doing anything…why the random pepper spray? This is insane!!

I put out a suggestion yesterday the protesters start using on them at protests, then also do a lot of mean girls junior high stuff to make them feel insecure. Since that's why they are who they are....

Hoods are required gear when you terrorize the colored. Because the terrorists have always been powerful, recognizable folks hiding in broad daylight. In this country, you are granted the ability to know the face of your accuser and the faces of their minions. Masks mean unauthorized operation.

That seems very close for the use of pepper balls.

Fucking hell. Even the framing of using their babies as shields instead of - taking the whole family to a demonstration of our rights - is so fucked. People have always brought babies, children, dogs to protests. I was ~5 my first time protesting.

i thought they were under judicial orders to not deploy tear gas/pepper spray without first giving warnings.

Yup. “Masked” demonstrators.

One of these days somebody will spray them with gas and light a match. They don’t seem to have any sense of risk assessment or situational awareness. This could easily have ended in a mass casualty event.

What are they spraying at the citizens, and where can WE get some.

Whoa whoa whoa! Citation needed! 🤡 If what you say is true, then there would be evidence of "tough on crime" Dems under president Biden, attacking Black people for say, wearing masks at protests, because a 75c surgical mask or N95, defeats many face recognition systems.

Yes asking a question about why babies were at a protest is victim blaming.... Yeah definetly need to go outside.

These are similar to paintball guns but they fire balls full of pepper spray. They work both my injuring and maiming protesters and gassing them at the same time. They're not the worst thing to be shot at with but they are still a bitch if you get hit

Hey maybe try directing your questions the right way

I don't think they were expecting tear gas.