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What Tear Gas Does to Fish

Brian Owens · September 23, 2020 ·

Previous work shows the main ingredient in tear gas can kill fish—but little else is known about how riot control agents affect the environment.

Juniper Simonis was radicalized on July 10, 2020, in Portland, Oregon. That’s the date, Simonis says, that—while they were chalking the property line of a federal building to show protesters where to stand—unidentified federal agents grabbed them and their service dog, Wallace, and held them for nine hours without food, water, or access to a phone. Read more in Hakai.

Hakai Black Lives Matter, ecology, pollution, Portland

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