U.S. Lawmakers Demand Reforms to #Immigration Officers’ Use of #TearGas and #PepperSpray

3 US senators have called for an overhaul of federal agents’ use of tear gas & pepper spray, citing a ProPublica investigation that found at least 79 children were left screaming, coughing or hurt by these chemicals during Trump’s immigration crackdown.

Lawmakers said the findings showed more restrictions are needed to avoid injuring bystanders — with chemical munitions.

https://www.propublica.org/article/lawmakers-demand-reforms-tear-gas-children

"This Podcast Will Kill You", | Ep 207 Tear Gas: How can a chemical weapon be “humane”?

Short answer It can't.

Here or wherever you get your podcasts: https://www.podbean.com/ea/dir-hfuqh-2cd0a0b1

#podcasts #ThisPodcastWillKillYou #teargas #chemicalweapons

“It’s all just a little bit of history repeating.”
- Shirley Bassey

( "Tear Gas: the most effective agent used by employers to persuade their employees that the interests of capital and labor are identical." - T-Bone Slim )

https://www.propublica.org/article/charles-mauldin-selma-tear-gas

#civilrights #ICEout #Photography #Selma #TearGas #VotingRightsAct

"ProPublica identified💔at least 79 children who’ve been left screaming, unable to breathe, or otherwise hurt by #TearGas & pepper spray during Trump’s historic IMM crackdown."

"Surveys⚡like these are invaluable, & it's one reason that⚡ProPublica is one of the best news outlets.🚨But it's worth emphasizing that this is the lower bound, & there's no way to actually see how many #CHILDREN HAVE BEEN HARMED like this by #DHS's recklessness."
-D Bier

#Torture #ICE #CBP #USPol
https://www.propublica.org/article/kids-tear-gas-trump-immigration-crackdown?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1778202005&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Resistance, Remembrance, and Comunidad: Cinco de Mayo, Mount Pleasant, and the Rebuilding That Erases

Cinco de Mayo is often misunderstood in the United States. It is reduced to a marketing holiday, a day of beer specials, paper flags, mariachi clichés, and the shallow consumption of Mexican culture without the burden of remembering Mexican history. But the heart of Cinco de Mayo is not consumption. It is resistance.

The day remembers the Battle of Puebla, May 5, 1862, when Mexican forces defeated the French army, then one of the most powerful military forces in the world. It was not Mexican Independence Day. It was not the founding of Mexico. It was a day when a people under pressure from empire stood their ground. It was a day when the powerful were resisted by those who were supposed to lose. It was, at its deepest level, a day about memory, dignity, land, sovereignty, and the refusal to be swallowed by imperial appetite. (MySA)

That is why, for me, Cinco de Mayo cannot be separated from another May 5: May 5, 1991, in Washington, D.C.

I was there.

Read the rest of the essay at PeaceGrooves.com.

California Professor Acquitted of Assault After Removing Tear Gas at Immigration Protest

📰 Original title: Man Trump Admin Targeted For Removing Tear Gas From Crowd Found Not Guilty

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/california-professor-acquitted-of-assault-after-removing-tear-gas-at-immigration-protest/?redirpost=bf239e7d-a656-4150-9473-23db2f073ecb

#justice #teargas #immigration #trial