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…

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    5 hours ago

    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.

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        3 hours ago

        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)