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    Tear gas, also known as a lachrymatory agent or lachrymator (from Latin lacrima 'tear'), sometimes colloquially known as "mace" after the early commercial...
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    defining component of the lachrymatory agent commonly referred to as CS gas, a tear gas which is used as a riot control agent, and is banned for use in warfare...
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    Riot control (redirect from Tear Agent)
    detain rioters. Since the 1980s, riot control officers have also used tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, stun grenades, and electric tasers. In some...
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    reach a compromise. After 51 days, on April 19, 1993, the FBI launched a tear gas attack in an attempt to force the Branch Davidians out of the compound's...
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    response, riot police units deployed tear gas, which triggered a stampede of people in the stadium trying to escape the gas. A crush formed at one exit, resulting...
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    static nature of gas clouds would be most effective. The types of weapons employed ranged from disabling chemicals, such as tear gas, to lethal agents...
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    George Floyd protests in Washington, D.C., law enforcement officers used tear gas and other riot control tactics to forcefully clear peaceful protesters...
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    August 2019, police used 1000 tear gas canisters. Then, on the single day of 5 August, police fired more than 800 tear gas canisters in their operations...
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  • Look up teargas or tear gas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tear gas is a non-lethal chemical weapon that cause severe eye and respiratory pain, skin...
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    Pepper spray (redirect from OC gas)
    spray, OC spray, capsaicin spray, or capsicum spray is a lachrymator (tear gas) product containing the compound capsaicin as the active ingredient that...
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    9mm P.A.K. (section Tear gas)
    compatible with gas pistols 9mm R. (.380) or 9mm R NC designed for blank-firing revolvers. Cal. 9mm P.A. CS are cartridges loaded with tear gas CS (80 mg)...
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    use CR gas in Northern Ireland. CR tear gas was used in suppression of the mutiny in Makati that was led by Sen. Antonio Trillanes. The tear gas was fired...
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    agents, who responded by firing tear gas into the crowd which included families with small children. The use of tear gas in this situation was strongly...
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    with the introduction of effective non-lethal chemical agents such as tear gas and offensive-odor canisters, and non-lethal impact rounds such as rubber...
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  • Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest is a 2017 non-fiction book written by Zeynep Tufekci about protest in the age of the...
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  • Mandate over Mesopotamia. Use of tear gas and lethal poison gas against Iraqi rebels was considered, and the use of gas was promoted by Winston Churchill...
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  • Tear Gas is the fourth studio album by American rapper The Jacka. It was released on June 16, 2009 through The Artist Records/SMC Recordings. Recording...
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  • wearing gas masks. The protestors were then repulsed by the police. Police responded to the protesters in the "green zone" by firing tear gas canisters...
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    been using tear gas as an offensive weapon, firing it indoors inside a railway station, using expired tear gas, which could release toxic gases upon combustion...
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  • Tear Gas Squad is a 1940 American drama film directed by Terry O. Morse and starring Dennis Morgan, John Payne and Gloria Dickson. The film was made under...
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    conversion of a traditional handgun made to be able to fire blanks or tear gas cartridges. Effective range is up to 4.5 metres depending on caliber. For...
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  • only increased tensions in the area. Police eventually succeeded in using tear gas to disperse the crowd from downtown, forcing them to move several blocks...
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  • 26 August 2024. "Khatron Ke Khiladi 14: Aashish Mehrotra breaks down in tears as he gets eliminated; Rohit Shetty honours him by calling him 'Kedar Aashish'...
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    protesters attempted to tear down the fence and threw bottles, rocks, and bricks at the officers, and then the officers fired tear gas canisters. A major confrontation...
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  • Matthew; Jackson, Anthony (May 29, 2020). "Police confront protesters, fire tear gas in SE ABQ". Albuquerque Journal. Retrieved January 18, 2023. Schmelzer...
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    1970s he left the Bo Weavels and joined Glasgow-based band Tear Gas. The line up of Tear Gas were: Andi Mulvey on lead vocals, Zal Cleminson on lead guitar...
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    bullets, and tear gas to disperse the crowd. Video footage of the events recorded by KARG Argus Radio shows Ferguson Police firing tear gas into a residential...
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    Dressed in tactical clothing, 24-year-old James Eagan Holmes set off tear gas grenades and shot into the audience with multiple firearms. Twelve people...
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    Day on 15 August. On 15 August, shortly after midnight, police deployed tear gas and baton charged a crowd of demonstrators at R.G. Kar Medical College...
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    and released tear gas into the hallway, gassing all six boys. It took up to eight minutes to remove the boys in their cells from the tear gas. A news release...
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