Funny how all of the white dudes with guns who are always screaming about their rights just do not give a shit about anyone else's. Why is that, I wonder? /s

Police in the US are rotten and racist to the core. It's not a few bad apples. It's a few good apples. There is only one thing that can change this. Take the money away. Defund the police.

I live a full mile -- a MILE -- from the protest. I stepped outside and got hit in the face with teargas. A MILE away. A mile radius around Capitol Hill is an enormous percentage of the city. The police have declared war on us.

@4 Do you even get a rise out of anyone anymore with this sort of thing? It really just makes you look mean and miserable and very small. Like an old racist grandparent, crumpled over, needing a walker to drag around their oxygen tank while they spout the hate from generations past.

Some people just want to watch the world burn.

These sorts of things are banned in many other countries. Just as police manage to capture violent criminals while also not killing large numbers of civilians in many other countries. Tear gas is for autocratic regimes that refuse to engage in the democratic process it would take to resolve valid complaints. Seattle PD has had 8 years since federal oversight started to become a better partner with the community to provide for our security. The Police Union has consistently resisted anything that looked like a fair partnership, and has consistently demanded the right to use violence without accountability to the community they are supposed to serve. This stance would be only slightly less galling if they were actually decent at the basic police work of investigating property crime in this city.

It's time to take away their money, and give it to a group that actually wants to serve the public and keep it safe.

@4,

"The author of this article" is relaying the experiences of other people. Nothing got in her apartment. Learn to read you stupid fuck.

Bill Gates is not your friend.

https://www.corbettreport.com/gates/

Funny thing about 'tear gas', AKA CS gas.
Banned in warfare under Geneva Convention.
Why?
The stuff is classified as a poison/asphyxiating gas.
Used in a confined space, indoors or in a vehicle, the victim is rendered incapable of breathing.
The gas is so irritating to the lungs that you cannot draw a breath, even while unconscious.
Left in a cloud of CS gas, humans die.
Weird that Cops in the US can use it, but Soldiers overseas cannot.
The stuff is too dangerous for combat, should tell you how safe is.

"FOAMING AT THE MOUTH!"- enough with the hyperbole, Mosqueda. Kid had a runny nose.

I smelled it the day after as I was riding by Cal Anderson park.

It's deeply disturbing that there are no signs of change in protocol, just a minor appeasing of those affected and only for the time being. It's like... that boyfriend who beats you, promises to be better, dozens of times, but bubbling under the surface is the plot to murder you if he knows he can get away with it. Look at the cops' eager faces, their covered name tags and badge numbers, there is psychosis running rampant throughout that clan. They're ready to attack at a moment's notice and they can't fucking wait to inflict violence.

Meanwhile, we have Jenny "I can't make any promises" Durkan supporting the violence. We're on our own...

Stop gassing your citizens, SPD!

The smell of tear gas definitely lingered and was irritating my kids lungs the next day outside. We live in the area.

@12 - Says 'David in Shoreline' who's never stood up for any of his or other people's rights ever. And probably doesn't even know what the term "police riot" means or why it exists. You have no leg to stand on here David. Your words are meaningless.

For Jackkay & Swiftress & the other one I can't bother to remember: "..tear gas.. The chemical substance, which is actually a dispersion of tiny crystals as opposed to gas, was banned from international warfare in 1997 yet is still a popular crowd control weapon."
'riot control agent' my ass.

Durkan & Chief Best AUTHORIZED this egregious use-of-force. And then made flimsy excuses about it, and said cops wouldn't uncover their badge numbers "overnight". As if.

@1 - Exactly... where TF are all the 2A people? Why aren't they defending the 1A and preventing authoritarianism like they always yammer on about? Paper tigers, imho.

An excerpt from an article on Ars Technica about how dangerous tear gas really is: "Tear gas is more dangerous than police let on—especially during the pandemic

It also seeps into homes; contaminates food, furniture; and can cause long-term lung damage."

Time to lawyer up, people, if they won't cut SPD's funding, take it away from them in court.

It lingers like mist in the right weather conditions. I once slept all night at Ft. Lewis with a gas mask downwind of an exercise to keep from gasping and tearing. I can't believe they used it near residences.

I would think the personal injury lawyers would be slavering over this for a class action suit