Post by the Scribe on Jun 8, 2020 18:11:30 GMT
Quote of the weekend
"By the way, there was no tear gas used [Monday]. The tear gas was used Sunday when they had to clear H Street to allow the fire department to come in to save St. John's Church. That's when tear gas was used. ... No, there were not chemical irritants. Pepper spray is not a chemical irritant. It's not chemical."
— Attorney General William Barr, on CBS Face the Nation, on what was used against peaceful protesters outside the White House on Monday before they were forcibly cleared to allow the president to take a walk to St. John's Church across from the White House.
While Park Police say they didn't use "tear gas," a local reporter collected spent cans of tear gas on scene. What's more, Dr. Ranit Mishori, senior medical adviser for Physicians for Human Rights and a Georgetown University professor of family medicine, told FactCheck.org in an email: "Tear gas and pepper spray both belong to a class of crowd-control weapons known as chemical irritants."
www.npr.org/2020/06/08/871730265/trumps-response-to-coronavirus-race-has-put-him-in-a-hole-for-reelection
"By the way, there was no tear gas used [Monday]. The tear gas was used Sunday when they had to clear H Street to allow the fire department to come in to save St. John's Church. That's when tear gas was used. ... No, there were not chemical irritants. Pepper spray is not a chemical irritant. It's not chemical."
— Attorney General William Barr, on CBS Face the Nation, on what was used against peaceful protesters outside the White House on Monday before they were forcibly cleared to allow the president to take a walk to St. John's Church across from the White House.
While Park Police say they didn't use "tear gas," a local reporter collected spent cans of tear gas on scene. What's more, Dr. Ranit Mishori, senior medical adviser for Physicians for Human Rights and a Georgetown University professor of family medicine, told FactCheck.org in an email: "Tear gas and pepper spray both belong to a class of crowd-control weapons known as chemical irritants."
www.npr.org/2020/06/08/871730265/trumps-response-to-coronavirus-race-has-put-him-in-a-hole-for-reelection