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.

  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    It’s not quite machine gunning them down with a 50, but it’s damn close. I’d hate to live on the difference.