What's the deal with that scary-looking green gas ICE is using in Minneapolis?

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• Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  TL;DR they’re just regular smoke grenades.

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  • KayLeadfoot@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That's right - I just read up on it so y'all don't have to :)

    It's one of the many smoke grenades that create colorful smoke, the chemicals in a smoke grenade aren't awesome, but it's not CS gas or tear gas or anything that is specifically designed to hurt you.

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• ideonek@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s mostly for “we are evil” branding. Mix well with purple.

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• CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Domestic attacks by fascist paramilitary invaders threatens American neighborhoods as carcinogenic and mutagenic HC smoke is used (Minnesota - 01/21/26)

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  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Kinda weird that the only evidence of it being HC smoke is a photo of the side of the grenade that doesn’t show the model information? Like this should be trivially easy to settle which model this is.

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    • CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Kinda weird that they are shooting people in the head and lying about it too.

      In the article, the expert is not able to definitively say that is being used, as the website is broken and nothing matches the munitions used.

      Some specialized labs can test for HC exposure but only within 72 hours so good luck.

      I don’t trust our government. And I don’t want to just hope that this isn’t as bad as it seems. I want actual accountability and oversight.

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