as the headline implies, the use of these toxic & brutal crowd control measures is synonymous with misuse

They are more willing to hurt you today than yesterday. Keep that in mind when you join a protest. We are not in same world we used to be.

This isn't misuse. This is intentional use. They are using these weapons to intentionally inflict as much harm as they can. The only reason they don't use lead on people is because killing and maiming people this way makes them less likely to work together to stop ice.

Fun fact, DC, which is now under permanent martial law they just don't call it that so people are less likely to fight back, has 1 person with a gun who is allowed to murder any regular person they want without repercussions, for every 70 humans. 1 in 70 people in DC has a gun and a mandate to murder Americans. And I'm not including ice, FBI, DHS, or S.ecret S.ervice in that number. That's just cops and active troops on the street. So the real number is likely closer to 1 in 55 or 1 in 60.

At the height of nazi Germany, including the gestapo, the SS, the "regular police" and the military police, there was only 1 enforcement agent for every 380 people. trump has 10x more violent thugs on the streets of DC than the nazis did in Germany.

The nazis were able to kill a tenth of their population. That'd be about 34 million people here. Of course, that's crazy. We do have nazi levels of police on the streets already, even outside DC, but America is too big.

Well, you might be able to do that in America, but you'd need the 3rd largest army in the world patrolling our streets, and you'd need to be building concentration camps to augment the largest prison system in the world. Hey, did you guys know ice is now the third most well funded army in the world, right behind China's army? Did you know they're building dozens and dozens of concentration camps?

It's not quite machine gunning them down with a 50, but it's damn close. I'd hate to live on the difference.

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

How many videos are there floating around of ICE just rolling up and discharging nonleathal weapons on protestors? They enjoy hurting protestors. That's why they signed up. I feel like it's not much longer before we start hurting back.

It's not a war crime if it's against your own civilians... apparently.

Tear gas is a chemical weapon.

If you're anywhere politically Left of fascist, you should embrace your Second Amendment right while you can.

Helmets and safety goggles peeps

You can buy cheap ones for under $20, they’ll be better than nothing.

If you can afford it, get bulk safety goggles to hand out to others. Super easy to lose an eye out there.

It was deliberate, so "misuse" is a misnomer.

Europeans ask "why don't more Americans protest" as though we don't live in a police state with literal brownshirts throwing people into the back of a van.