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.
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.