ASSOCIATED PRESS Tear gas floats in the air as a line of police move demonstrators away from St. John's Church near the White House on June 1. Though tear gas is banned in war, it’s currently classified as a “riot control agent” that can be used for crowd control. “As an immunologist, it scares me,” Dr. Purvi Parikh, an allergy and immunology doctor at NYU Langone Health, told Pro Publica about the use of tear gas. A 22-year-old Ohio woman died two days after she attended a demonstration in Columbus last month where police shot tear gas and pepper spray at protesters. A 21-year-old Indiana Tech student lost his right eye during a May protest after he said a tear gas canister was shot at his head.

Source: Huffington Post June 10, 2020 19:07 UTC