Wow!...Check-out interactive report on tear gas used in Portland protests 'This was a disaster'

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11. CS gas is nasty, it has to be considered a weapon of war

and even that is controversial.

They didn't use it back in Boston, too much population density, too much collateral damage. Out west, the cops seem to love it. Ky first experience of it was just a couple of weeks after I moved out here, cops were trying to roust a buy in the neighborhood and shot 4 canisters into a converted 2 car garage, total overkill. The guy wasn't home but I was and trying to sleep after a 12 hour night shift and there was no sleep to be had that day. Everything in the area stank for days. I can't imagine what people in Portland and downwind went through.

The use on civilians in cities is unconscionable. I have to wonder what it did to old folks with COPD. I know what it did to my otherwise mild asthma.

CS gas needs to be banned. Cops can't be trusted with it, especially in Portland.

Oh, and by the way, tasers are not tranquilizers, either.