4 ms·
The City Council banned the ownership and use of chemical weapons and undirected crowd control munitions (e.g. blast balls) by the police dept (or their allies)
by Pfhreak 6y ago
The City Council banned the ownership and use of chemical weapons and undirected crowd control munitions (e.g. blast balls) by the police dept (or their allies). The police were flooding residential areas with CS gas to the point that, at times, you couldn't see down a block.
https://www.theurbanist.org/2020/06/16/seattle-council-bans-chemical-weapons-and-other-brutal-crowd-control-tactics/ https://www.theurbanist.org/2020/06/16/seattle-council-bans-...
- MH15 6y agoThe Seattle PD continued to use chemical weapons after the ban, so there's that.
- Pfhreak 6y agoThe mayor sued to ensure the police could still deploy indiscriminate chemical weapons.
- debian_lover 6y agoI guess the cops are supposed to just let the city get burned to the ground, because tear gas is bad.