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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA point many are missing about the use of tear gas
From my college roommate (and first boyfriend):
All lachrymator agents (tear gases) are banned from warfare under the Geneva Protocol: It prohibits the use of "asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and of all analogous liquids, materials or devices" and "bacteriological methods of warfare".
So, if this were a war, every Mayor, Governor and Police Chief who authorized the use of tear gas could, and most likely would, be brought before the Hague to stand trial. That is a fact and should give us all pause.
These are powerful and dangerous chemicals and the use of them should be greatly limited. The term tear gas has a friendly ring to it. However, it is a misleading term. Lachrymator agents and other chemical weapons are not appropriate measures for the streets of the worlds greatest democracy.
grumpyduck
(6,240 posts)We were exposed to it in Basic Training many years ago and it is disgusting to think that it's being used on civilians.
rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)It makes a person angry as hell to get gassed. Using it for crowd control is a recipe for a riot IMO, it makes people want to fight back with whatever comes to hand.
PufPuf23
(8,791 posts)demonstrations in Berkeley.
Rather than being in Berkeley for the demonstrations, I was in a short bus of high school students from elsewhere in East Bay on a field trip to the University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives, across Bancroft from the Cal campus and east of Telegraph Avenue, not far from the ground zero between People's Park and Sproul Plaza (campus).
So lots of people and bad traffic and we had to park farther away than what had been useful then try to stay together as a small group 12-15) to traverse the action.
We must have looked too organized and were teargassed when the riot police formed a line and attempted to push back the crowd. We had managed to get surrounded by and trapped within the melee.
Once hit by tear gas it burns and is uncomfortable and not easy to recover without water and quiet as opposed to being enclosed by an agitated crowd being pressured by LE.
Yeah This use of gas is a war crime.
crickets
(25,981 posts)Does he really think the rest of the world can't see it and recognize what is going on?
thecrow
(5,519 posts)First they were all a Twitter about Rod Rosenstein being grilled by the Senate...
They got around to the people demonstrating their solidarity and said
The police did not use tear gas... that was smoke bombs. They were using pepper balls.
So are they changing the narrative so the attack sounded much less than what it was?
Deplorable!