For many decades governments around the world, especially in the USA, have fired tens of thousands of rounds of CS gas at their own people in an attempt to control “civil unrest”. The media falsely ...

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler on Thursday ordered the Police Bureau to halt the use of CS gas as a crowd control tool amid ongoing protests that have routinely gotten out of hand. The directive comes ...

As the Trump administration continues to defend firing tear gas into crowds of asylum seekers, we look at the history of tear gas, which is banned in warfare but legal for federal authorities and ...

Our favorite mercenary force, Blackwater, used tear gas grenades in an incident in Iraq two years ago. *The helicopter was hovering over a Baghdad checkpoint into the Green Zone, one typically crowded ...

Further analysis by former military explosives disposal experts of canisters and casings obtained by a WUSA9 crew Monday night on H & 17th street indicates another form of munitions used against ...

Seattle’s mayor and police chief announced they’ve agreed to ban the use of tear gas to disperse protesters for 30 days amid ongoing demonstrations after the death of George Floyd. “After hearing ...

It's been more than one hundred days since Portlanders first asked Mayor Ted Wheeler to stop his police officers from coating crowds of protesters in CS gas—a commonly used tear gas. Now, after ...

Portland, Ore. Sept. 10, 2020 5:32 p.m. Updated: Sept. 11, 2020 9:40 p.m. After more than 100 days of demonstrations for racial justice, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has banned the city’s police force ...

Timur Ender lives with his wife, Althea, and two young children in East Portland, not far Ventura Park and the Portland Police Bureau’s East Precinct. He cares deeply about justice and equality in ...

Local reports from protesters in Portland, Oregon said that tear gas (also known as CS gas) was used against protesters on Friday night/Saturday morning, just eight days after Mayor Ted Wheeler ...

Portland, Ore., Mayor Ted Wheeler is telling the city's police to "end the use of CS gas for crowd control" in a policy change that he says is effective immediately. The chlorine-containing compound ...