Fullface masks with cheap P3 filters will work fine against pepperspray (be sure to lose the filter after you get sprayed). You can get something good enough on AliExpress for like 30 bucks, from several “we have 3M at home” brands.

For CS/CN aka teargas deployed in wide-area use, you’ll definitely want an active carbon filter. Note that those will work fine on your knockoff gasmask, but the fit of it will be much worse than a proper (150 dollar) mask, so you’ll definitely get some tiny exposure. It gets worse if your face isn’t that of a cleanshaven white male. Note that activated carbon has a limited lifespan, whether in use or not. Technically you’ll want RCA filter canisters, but those aren’t in most stores.

Just a reminder, as stated in the other duplicate posts in other communities where this was also posted, this image is AI.

This is a fabricated image that did not happen.

That’s how you get shot for brandishing what reasonably appeared to be a chainsaw.

I think this is worthwhile posting again as a “TIL that leaf blowers are a good way to defend against tear gas” when this post gets removed for falling fowl of rule 1.

New legislation introduced in Washington to ban black assault leaf blowers

I initially read that as Poland, I need to go to sleep