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Alissa Azar Feb 1

They just heavily gassed. Went thru my full face again. the medics were saying it was going through their masks too. There were very young children present. This is the road nearby ten minutes after the gassing started. The gas is still visible as I type this. Crowd regroup and energy is high. “Killing in the name of” now playing on loud speaker. More later nothing will upload not even pics

https://kolektiva.social/@alissaazar/115992304663332869

#chemicalweapons #pdx #Portland #teargas

Alissa Azar Feb 1

Will upload camera pics when I get home but for now here’s a pic on the camera. Pointing munitions at faces. Will share stuff as I can it took a million tries to upload last pic

Alissa Azar Feb 1

People are dancing in the spicy air as roof cop feds shoot pepper balls

Alissa Azar Feb 1

This far right ICE supporter came to cause problems. There was a scuffle and then he pulled out his mace. He’s still here.

Alissa Azar Feb 1

Alissa Azar Feb 1

Another very heavy round of teargas after a dumpster got rolled over onto the driveway of the ICE facility. Uploading anything is taking ages right now.

Alissa Azar Feb 1

Didn’t realize I broke thread earlier. Still in Portland lol

https://kolektiva.social/@alissaazar/115992304663332869

Alissa Azar (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Massive crowd at Elizabeth Caruthers park just a few blocks away from the Portland ICE facility for the Labor Against ICE rally and march. Lots of various unions out showing support. Not sure I’ve ever seen a crowd this big at a rally here #pdx #portland

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Alissa Azar Feb 1

That was a gnarly wave of teargas. No luck uploading anything and need to conserve battery. It cleared out a lot of people but still a large crowd remains

Alissa Azar Feb 1

From that last wave of teargas. Videos are a little glitchy. Some photographers were complaining about issues with their cameras as well from the amount of gas.

Alissa Azar Feb 1

Idk what’s going on today. I put in new filters this morning after they deployed HC last Saturday and gas was still seeping through my mask so I had to walk away. Both medics who helped me said it was getting in their masks as well.

Alissa Azar Feb 1

This was the view after I moved away for some reprise. You can see after the flash bang grenade goes off a bird flying. Was a heartbreaking reminder it's not just people impacted by this but animals and nature too.

Alissa Azar Feb 1

A little bit ago the feds were randomly shooting pepper balls from the roof, and then randomly shot off another single round of teargas into the crowd.

Someone got taken by an ambulance in a stretcher during that last heavy wave of gas. People are saying it was a resident in a nearby apartment.

Alissa Azar Feb 1

I’m gonna have to call it for the night. That gas is fucking with me. Will update as needed if I hear anything.

Alissa Azar Feb 1

Tonight’s collection of spent munitions

Alissa Azar Feb 1

Idk if it’s the exposure to HC last Saturday in addition to all the gas tonight or what but I really don’t feel good and i have never experienced chest pain like this in my life. Others messaging me about how nauseous they are.

When I first got treated by a medic they wanted to rinse my eyes first. Which yeah, I couldn’t see, but it was mainly my chest. I couldn’t breathe and it was so painful. Felt better for a little bit, maybe was the adrenaline, but now it’s back and it’s rough.

Alissa Azar Feb 1

Someone just told me that they saw multiple people passed out during the first brutal wave of tear gas when there were still a ton of children and elderly folks

Alissa Azar Feb 1

There was a line of children waiting to get treated by medics

Alissa Azar Feb 1

Terrible headache ✅
Nausea ✅
Chest pain ✅

Alissa Azar Feb 1

Reports of people being shot with rubber bullets that had smiley faces drawn on them in sharpie

Alissa Azar Feb 1

The feds shot out a local residents window this evening with these munitions that they also shot at people. I’m not sure that I’ve seen these before, does anybody recognize? (Not my photos)

One kind of looks like a 40mm foam round but that wood looking stuff??

Alissa Azar Feb 1

There are photos and videos of the children who were gassed today and 💔💔 absolutely insane. Their violence truly knows no bounds.

Alissa Azar Feb 1

Just reading so many accounts of people talking about rinsing out the eyes of their small children, or people who were there with their elderly parents who were vomiting as they were trying to get away

Alissa Azar Feb 1

I’m so stuck on the amount of children teargassed. I cannot even imagine how traumatizing this must be.

There were so many children at the park earlier. There were thousands and thousands of people out. I didn’t see any children near the gate where I was standing but that didn’t even matter. The teargas reached the park, blocks away. More and more people are telling me their gas hardly worked.

Alissa Azar Feb 1

Some of the teargas deployed tonight was expired. (They expire 5 years from the manufacture date)

Alissa Azar Feb 1

Somebody sent me footage of the feds shooting out a local residents window. This was right after the first barrage of teargas was deployed. They told me “this was a deliberate attack and we were nowhere near the entrance (of the ICE facility).”

bounding_star Feb 1

@alissaazar for accuracy's sake, mfg often refers to the manufactured date not expiry, I'm not an expert though

(also huge huge thanks for the information you're getting out, wishing you safety)

Alissa Azar Feb 1

@bounding_star correct and they expire 5 years from manufactured date 😭

bounding_star Feb 1

@alissaazar ahh makes sense. Quick bit of reading i did suggested when they expire they just are less effective, so seems like that's more of a downside for the cops?

Alissa Azar Feb 1

@bounding_star hmm there are some reports iirc that suggest they are even worse. But I will have to look tomorrow or something haven’t been able to shake this headache and screen isn’t helping lol

@alissaazar @bounding_star Thanks for all you are doing to get the word out. Take care of yourself. Maybe get checked out after all that gas?

Smol Gojira Feb 1

@alissaazar perhaps Im mistaken but doesn't tear gas break down into a more dangerous compound? With all the speculatory warnings over the years I wouldn't be surprised if I'm wrong but it's been in my head that expired is much more dangerous

Peter Riley Feb 1

Portland Jan 2026
(“Use by date”: the more things change the more they stay the same ?)

“ Tear Gas: The most effective agent used by employers to persuade their employees that the interests of capital and labor are identical.” – Industrial Worker, 06 March 1937.

Source:
https://commonslibrary.org/t-bone-slim-quotes/

The Proper Form of Politeness: Quotes from the Pen of T-Bone Slim

The Commons is an online library for the change makers of the world and for those interested in social change, activism, organising, advocacy and justice.

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LukefromDC Feb 1

@alissaazar What happens when the wind changes and the gas blows into say, a Christian nationalist church event or a politician's $10,000 a plate dinner funded by a developer?

@LukefromDC @alissaazar c'mon. We know the answer to this one. It's the protester's fault. If they'd just stayed home, none of this would have been necessary.

@LukefromDC it's Biden's fault, obviously 🙄

Eleanor Saitta Feb 1

@alissaazar
Remember that filters saturate and lose efficacy, generally around eight hours it so — if there's been a lot of gas, folks may not have been changing them enough.

@alissaazar
I hope you will get better soon.
It looks like civil war.
Your reports and photos are important, there will be a time 'after', and it will need your accounts to prosecute these thugs and their bosses.
Thanks for sharing. Keep save.

For all others:
Boycott #fifa #worldcup2026

Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק Feb 1

@alissaazar It kind of looks like a ceramic to me, which might be used for its heat resistance. Just one thought.

Looks like flash ball

https://www.lejdd.fr/Societe/le-lbd-une-acquisition-a-portee-de-toutes-les-mains-3905472

Le LBD, une acquisition à portée de toutes les mains?

L’agression, lundi matin, de la présidente de la cour d’assises de Versailles, avec une arme de poing, probablement un lanceur de balles de défense, pose la question de la réglementation de ces armes. Avec une interrogation triviale mais essentielle : tout le monde peut-il se les procurer?

Lejdd.fr

Thanks to Macron.

"Depuis, le mouvement des gilets jaunes en octobre 2018, jusqu’au 21 janvier 2019, on dénombrait en plus 143 blessés graves (dont 17 femmes), 92 déclarent avoir été touchés par des tirs de lanceur de balles de défense[63]. De plus, au 3 avril 2019, ces derniers ont occasionné 23 fois, la perte d’un œil,"
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanceur_de_balles_de_d%C3%A9fense#:~:text=Depuis%2C%20le%20mouvement,perte%20d%E2%80%99un%20%C5%93il%2C

Lanceur de balles de défense — Wikipédia

Eleanor Saitta Feb 1

@alissaazar
I know wood baton rounds are a thing (used similar to beanbag rounds), but I don't think they look like that. Might be the backer for a foam round the with foam missing?

@dymaxion @alissaazar

And speaking of wooden baton rounds . . .

https://kolektiva.social/@LevZadov/115997758384321763

It could also be a flash / oc / cs direct impact round too.

I couldn’t find much online that wasn’t the same stock photo. No diagrams or people breaking them down.

@alissaazar WTAF

cuan_knaggs Feb 1

@alissaazar a quick note from south africa. in the 80s the cops started dropping D cell batteries down the barrels of their rubber bullet guns. and firing that into the crowds

fluffydotorg Feb 1

Everything old is new again.

@alissaazar Hope you're feeling better today. Thank you for your reporting!

𝙈𝘼𝙁𝙒 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙤 Feb 1

Mastodon Migration Feb 1

Have a question for you. Do the federal agents get a lot of exposure to the gas as well?

One would think that they are breathing some of it everyday. It must be having an effect on them too.

Alissa Azar Feb 1

@mastodonmigration I know they have top of the line PPE, but it has to. HC also gets absorbed in the skin. A few months back one of the feds took off his gas mask because even with it on he was choking on the chemicals they deployed

Mastodon Migration Feb 1

Interesting. Just wondering about the cumulative effect on them. When you read about soldiers in WW1 you learn about how they all went crazy from the gas exposure. That's in addition to the other physical health problems.

Mastodon Migration Feb 1

So sorry to hear you are feeling poorly. Certainly cumulative exposure is a bad thing. Hopefully you will recover quickly. Take care Alissa. You are amazing.

Dan Patch Feb 1

@alissaazar there's so much I appreciate about your posting, and one small example is these photos. for me they constitute a precious glimpse into a world of productized military tools and weapons I could have never imagined outside an '80s political satire.

tl;dr thank you

@alissaazar https://www.msdsdigital.com/system/files/Defense%20Technology%201026%20-%20Triple-Chaser%20Separating%20Canister%20CS%20-%20US.pdf a safety sheet for the cs canister. Maybe useful, maybe interesting. These also apparently cost about 35 dollars each.

Edit: OC canister, so this might be wrong too.

Alissa Azar Feb 1

@elebertus they used triple chaser CS too that’s what’s in the first pic. Thank you!

@alissaazar who makes these? Is there some factory in America that churns them out?

Alissa Azar Feb 1

@Poljack defense technology / safariland

Celeste Ryder 🐾 🐀🏳️‍🌈Feb 1

@alissaazar “Safariland”? Am I reading this right? Are they shooting actual hunting munitions at protesters?!?

Francisca Sinn Feb 1

@alissaazar Thank you. Stay safe. 🙏🏻

Anarcho-Daddy Feb 1

@alissaazar holy shit get some rest and decontaminate!