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It shocks the conscience that the US police regularly use equipment and tactics that would be a war crime in foreign countries.
by ashtonkem 6y ago
It shocks the conscience that the US police regularly use equipment and tactics that would be a war crime in foreign countries.
- reaperducer 6y agoIf you think that tear gas isn't being used in foreign countries, then you haven't watched television news in the last 40 years.
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- ashtonkem 6y agoYou’re not being as witty as you think you are. My point wasn’t “it doesn’t happen”, my point was “it’s a war crime”. The fact that what is a war crime is policy for domestic policing is what I’m angry about.
- herewulf 6y agoNot really. CS is banned by a technicality. An irritant gas is hard to distinguish from a lethal one and easily swapped if chemical delivery systems are already present on the battlefield. CS is quite useless against a conventional force because all modern armies are equipped with protective masks in case the other side does use chemical or biological weapons.