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    Tear gas, also known as a lachrymatory agent or lachrymator (from Latin lacrima 'tear'), sometimes colloquially known as "mace" after the early commercial...
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    commonly referred to as CS gas, a tear gas which is used as a riot control agent. Exposure causes a burning sensation and tearing of the eyes to the extent...
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    August 2019, police used 1000 tear gas canisters. Then, on the single day of 5 August, police fired more than 800 tear gas canisters in their operations...
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    Riot control (redirect from Tear Agent)
    detain rioters. Since the 1980s, riot control officers have also used tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, stun grenades, and electric tasers. In some...
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    reach a compromise. After 51 days, on April 19, 1993, the FBI launched a tear gas attack in an attempt to force the Branch Davidians out of the compound's...
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  • Look up teargas or tear gas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tear gas is a non-lethal chemical weapon that cause severe eye and respiratory pain, skin...
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    police units deployed tear gas, which triggered a stampede of people in the stadium trying to escape from the effects of the gas. A crush formed at an...
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    Pepper spray (redirect from OC gas)
    spray, OC spray, capsaicin spray, or capsicum spray is a lachrymator (tear gas) product containing the compound capsaicin as the active ingredient that...
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    static nature of gas clouds would be most effective. The types of weapons employed ranged from disabling chemicals, such as tear gas, to lethal agents...
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    use CR gas in Northern Ireland. CR tear gas was used in suppression of the mutiny in Makati that was led by Sen. Antonio Trillanes. The tear gas was fired...
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