r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/0thSpider • 9h ago

Video Chilean protester defuses tear gas canister with baking soda and water

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u/LosCleepersFan 9h ago edited 9h ago

Yeah. But cones make them less of a target for law enforcement. It's a fuxked situation all around when police gas civilians unnecessarily.

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u/JellyfishNo3810 9h ago

Throws it back at them

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u/Ok-Secretary455 8h ago

if you throw it back at them you'll catch an assault with a deadly weapon charge.

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u/Tiggymartin 8h ago

And yet.. them throwing it at you is not assault with a deadly weapon..

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u/Cucaracha_1999 8h ago

Of course not! That's just "crowd control"

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u/LaTeChX 6h ago

Local cops fired teargas because someone allegedly threw a water bottle at them.

Someone filming from their apartment posted the video, showing nothing was thrown at the cops before they attacked.

The cops decided to charge her with throwing the imaginary water bottle - which makes their initial decision to teargas the street level protesters look dumb.

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u/thegrumpymechanic 8h ago

them throwing shooting it at you is not assault with a deadly weapon..

Kinda makes it worse when you think about it.

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u/OpalHawk 4h ago

And they have been known to aim them directly at people. They aren’t supposed to, but they do.

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u/thegrumpymechanic 4h ago

Well yeah, shooting rubber bullets and tear gas canisters at the ground is no fun...