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Corey Rayburn Yung
@coreyryung.bsky.social

Tear gas inhalation is extremely painful. It is described as feeling like fire going through your nose, sinuses, eyes, and lungs. A person feels like they can't breathe as it creates the sensation of choking. That's why, in 1925, the Geneva Convention made it illegal to use it as a weapon of war.

LorennaCleary.bsky.social@lorennacleary.bsky.social

Though civilians are only watching and sometimes yelling, ICE shoots tear gas at them and a passing car. They fire right at a woman. She had not done anything to threaten them.

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Corey Rayburn Yung
@coreyryung.bsky.social

Americans have become indifferent to tear gas usage. While the sight of a civilian being beaten with a baton still upsets some (but not all) Americans, tear gas is viewed as less harmful. But, if you speak to people who've experienced both, many will say the tear gas was worse.

Corey Rayburn Yung
@coreyryung.bsky.social

While a baton is a targeted weapon used by police, tear gas is indiscriminate. And, police use gas at a lower threshold, often just to force crowd dispersal. US police use tear gas far more frequently than similar countries because of public indifference. /end