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    Jfc people we learned to deal with this in 2019-2020. Wall of Dads in portland had the recipe.

    Get the fucking electric leafblowers out. Push the smoke back at the feds.

    Then you take an orange cone and put it on top of the canister, then pour water into the hole on top and cool the canister down and it stops producing.

    Found a good clip if you weren’t in on the fun in 2020:

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        I’m not aware of it this, can you explain more?

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          Likely just a tale.

          Baking soda is basic, Which would imply that the chemical being used is acidic so that it’s neutralized with baking soda. This also assumes that they mix in such a way that baking soda actually makes contact with enough of that chemical to have any effect.

          All of these are pretty big assumptions that are very easily wrong for many number of devices and chemicals.

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        It just feels like we have the formula for dealing with this and for some reason, people forgot the almost 20 years of protest tactics we learned starting with occupy.

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          Organizing ain’t easy ;/ in these times though, it’s surely necessary.

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            People also de-mobilize and re-mobilize. New people coming to protests who don’t have the knowledge or experience

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    So, chemical warfare? Isn’t that illegal?

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    They were using this in Portland all summer in front of the ICE building that’s across the street from apartment buildings and next door to an elementary school, which was forced to move to a new location when school started due to concerns about exposing kids to toxic chemicals.

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    Drop a bucket over it. Protesters should have buckets handy nearby. Learn from Hong Kong and resist effectively.

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    If you DONT want to Breathe in TOXIC CANCER CAUSING FUMES remember to Donate to our Campaigns!

    -Democratic Leadership!

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    Sorry, do ICE think they breathe a different air than protestors or do masks suddenly work at filtering out respiratory agents?

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    Am I misreading that video, or is the smoke blowing back at the pigs?

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      Give the fascist paramilitary invaders a break, they’ve only been trained for 47 days.

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    I cannot find cooborating reporting on this, does anyone have more data?

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      Most news orgs say tear gas as a catch all. However there are several other videos showing green smoke being used as a chemical irritant. Tear gas and CS gas is not green. So if it is not HC gas being deployed the it is some new chemical compound.