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 acros…
Huge problem during the 2020 protests too, all of these officers who knowingly used their equipment recklessly in ways that permanently maimed people must be imprisoned or this country will never be safe
Wouldn’t the danger these weapons pose fall under many states stand your ground laws?
I am willing to bet if protestors / monitors were very armed in a decent amount of numbers those illegal uses of force would stop happening
You’d think so, but ask the folks down in Prarieland TX how defending themselves from law enforcement violence worked out for them
That’s different, someone fired on a government agent who was pointing their gun at someone else. That would not fall under stand your ground because the person holding the firearm was not in immediate danger.
Nope, Texas self defense laws treat defense of another the same as defense of self, see Subchapter C sections 9.31-9.33
I still think it’s a reasonable deterrent. Amount of people armed matters, too. I don’t even think the agent raises his weapon if many of the people standing in the crowd he aimed at have a reasonable means to defend themselves. (In the Texas case the man who fired was hidden from him)