‘Misuse’ of crowd-control weapons on ICE protesters led to blindings and traumatic brain injuries, report finds
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Doctors and human rights experts documented hundreds of incidents from June 2025 through May 2026 and estimate true number is ‘far greater’

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.

  • minorkeys@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    6 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.

    • Gaja0@lemmy.zip
      6·
      6 days ago

      I remember learning about Malcolm X years after school.

      We are peaceful people, we are loving people. We love everybody who loves us. But we don’t love anybody who doesn’t love us. We’re nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us. But we are not nonviolent with anyone who is violent with us.

      Schools really failed me here. Never really helping understand why the need for protest. It was about buses and drinking fountains, not systematic poverty, gerry mandering, or violence.

      I decided to read his wiki since I still don’t know enough. I found this:

      “the same white supremacy that lynches Black people in America bombs villages in the Congo and bulldozes homes in Palestine.”

      Malcolm X, 1964.

      The terms of his assassination in 1965 are unclear, going all the way to 2023 with his family in 2023 suing CIA, FBI, and NYPD for concealing details. Feels like things haven’t really changed.

      • minorkeys@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        5 days ago

        They have. Sure the gov has always been willing to kill specific people if they get too uppity but the acceptable use of force in the last few years against general protests has gotten more severe. Even the WTO, Occupy Wall Street and BLM stuff didn’t come will such widespread acceptance for outright murder, dangerous misuse of equipment or use of deadlier tactics. What the police are willing to do to protesters today, on average, seems to be ramping up.