https://eyesonice.substack.com/p/minneapolis-mn-notoriously-carcinogenic
While local police are banned from using chemical irritants because of the danger they pose to the public, federal units operating in our city are using a loophole to deploy a poison that toxicity experts warn causes permanent lung damage and cancer.
Jfc people we learned to deal with this in 2019-2020. Wall of Dads in portland had the recipe.
Get the fucking electric leafblowers out. Push the smoke back at the feds.
Then you take an orange cone and put it on top of the canister, then pour water into the hole on top and cool the canister down and it stops producing.
Found a good clip if you weren’t in on the fun in 2020:
Add some baking soda to that water, shuts it of pretty much instantly.
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Likely just a tale.
Baking soda is basic, Which would imply that the chemical being used is acidic so that it’s neutralized with baking soda. This also assumes that they mix in such a way that baking soda actually makes contact with enough of that chemical to have any effect.
All of these are pretty big assumptions that are very easily wrong for many number of devices and chemicals.
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From 2020:
Leaf blowers, umbrellas, traffic cones, milk… the knowledge will circulate again
Milk hasn’t been shown to work, best practice is saline eye irrigation (normal water works in a pinch)
TIL, thank you
TIL, thanks for posting this
It just feels like we have the formula for dealing with this and for some reason, people forgot the almost 20 years of protest tactics we learned starting with occupy.
Organizing ain’t easy ;/ in these times though, it’s surely necessary.
People also de-mobilize and re-mobilize. New people coming to protests who don’t have the knowledge or experience