Portland officers indiscriminately sprayed teargas despite its own policies, which direct officers to consider proximity to schools, hospitals, freeways and other facilities and “minimize exposure to non-target persons”. Cody Bowman, a spokesperson for Portland mayor Ted Wheeler, said his office looked forward to reviewing FA's research. “And the Portland police department doesn’t care about the effects of long-term consistent exposure to teargas. Lingering scarsNearly three years after the teargassing began, the wounds from the events linger in the city of Portland, advocates said. “The fact that they used this level of violence to suppress people’s voices and deflect the communication of protesters, that’s never going away.

Source: The Guardian April 17, 2023 22:22 UTC