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    23 hours ago

    After Bovino threw the can, the Star-Tribune wrote, “plumes of green and gray smoke burst over the crowd,” causing protesters and observers to flee the scene.

    That is not normal tear gas (which is bad enough), it’s HC smoke which is extremely carcinogenic (arc).

    If there is any justice for any of this someday there’s going to be a massive settlement and taxpayers are going to be paying for cancer and hospice treatment for thousands of people affected by this in a couple of decades.

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      21 hours ago

      Hexachloroethane is suspected of causing cancer and may cause organ damage through prolonged or repeated exposure

      Sounds like they’re also shooting themselves in the foot with this one, especially since they don’t wear proper protection, from what I’ve seen

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        an El Salvadoran prison.

        I appreciate the sentiment, but we’ve done enough to that country already, and it’s not like this one lacks for prison cells

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            No, I just don’t think we should be dumping our prisoners on any other countries, Venezuela or El Salvador or anywhere else

            That said, in terms of bad stuff we’ve done to El Salvador specifically, we have propped up super brutal right wing governments there for decades specifically because it’s the northern most South American country and DC wants them to be a choke point where every wouldbe migrant from the area can get kidnapped and brutalized far enough away from the US that our journalists won’t ever notice. Like, CECOT never would have been built without US security aid.

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      I would be wary of identifying any chemical just by a loose description of its appearance like that.

      Deploying tear gas on peaceful protestors is disgusting even if it’s not toxic. It’s no different than tasing someone for no good reason, or choking them briefly for no good reason.

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        21 hours ago

        I mean, fair, I definitely would be interested in more information about this if anyone has it, but the description fits, it seems like the exact sort of dick move this administration would pull, and its probably going to be impossible to get any more information soon besides just the loose descriptions we have, so I’d say it’s more likely than not that this is HC smoke until more information becomes available.

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          It is a precedent they want to set. That is the point of all of this ICE stuff, setting precedents on this issue because it’s the one they have the most support on.

          They are setting them on this, for use in the next presidential election. And otherwise to crush protests.