Children screamed and coughed amid the gas, The Associated Press reported. The wind carried the aerosol chemicals toward people hundreds of feet away who were not attempting to enter the U.S., the wire service noted. One woman collapsed unconscious amid the chaos, and two babies sobbed with tears running down their faces from the gas, Reuters reported.
A statement from the Customs and Border Patrol agency said that officers responded with tear gas as migrants threw “projectiles,” which hit “several agents.”
The use of force was sharply criticized.
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) called on people “uncomfortable with spraying tear gas on children” to join the “coalition of the moral and the sane” to “get our country back.”
TVNL Comment: "Uncomfortable"? Not "outraged" or "horrified?" Trump has permitted the use of lethal force. This is just the beginning.
Olivia Hooker, one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race riots and among the first black women in the U.S. Coast Guard, has died. She was 103.
Officials are now saying the man who Alabama police shot and killed after a shooting at a mall near Birmingham "likely did not fire the shots" that wounded two people and sent terrified shoppers running for cover.
