Gassed in His Own Home
Federal agents deployed tear gas on a Minneapolis crowd that included children; the canisters shattered the window of a low-income apartment occupied by a disabled veteran, who was tear-gassed inside his own home.
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Federal immigration agents deployed multiple canisters of tear gas on a Minneapolis crowd that included children participating in a march. The canisters shattered the window of a nearby low-income apartment occupied by a disabled veteran, who was tear-gassed inside his own home.
Witness accounts from the scene describe at least six tear-gas canisters and four to six flashbang explosions used against an unarmed crowd, and a rotating shift of federal agents retreating to vehicles to warm up between deployments. Bystanders carried water bottles, saline, and eye wash; the crowd was, by the witness’s specific phrasing, “prepared to help one another.”