Lawsuit accuses L.A. jailers of firing 58 tear gas canisters into correctional facility dorm
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Attorney Jeff Price said the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department violated detainees' constitutional rights by subjecting them to "a literal blizzard of pepper spray without any justification."

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Now, some of the men who endured that “brutal event” are suing the county, claiming that deputies fired more than 50 canisters of tear gas at a dorm housing several dozen inmates — allegedly because two of them were mouthy and uncooperative when staff ordered them to get off the phone for the evening.