OPB’s First Look: Another Tear Gas Twist

OPB’s First Look: Another tear gas twist

Subscribe to OPB’s First Look to receive Northwest news in your inbox six days a week.Good morning, Northwest.The long legal back-and-forth over use of tear gas and other crowd control weapons at the ICE building in Portland took another sharp turn yesterday.OPB’s Conrad Wilson and Troy Brynelson report on appeals court decisions that grant federal officers unrestricted use of such munitions.In other news, data centers are making planning for th…

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Federal agents assigned to protecting the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland are clear to use chemical munitions and projectiles after a pair of Ninth Circuit rulings effectively blocked two court orders limiting such use of force.