It’s not the candy that’s the problem. It’s the cops.
The only people who rely on laws to make them decent human beings are cops.
Violates international conventions for chemical weapons, long-term safety data following exposure is sparse but alarming, it’s being used against peaceful people, and this factoid I didn’t know:
“The sale and trade of tear gas worldwide is largely unregulated, and as a result, it's often not clear what chemicals exist in each canister, how toxic these chemicals are, or even whether they've been safety tested beforehand, the researchers explain.”
But in a world where our diabetes drugs are tainted with carcinogens and our ecstasy is mostly meth and caffeine, why did I think there would be any quality control in the chemical weapons industry?
This goat is the GOAT.
At least he got caught lying on tape?
(Alternately: In which AZ Family shows it’s such a bunch of bootlickers that it needed to get quotes from cops who will defend a cop who holds a Black person at gun point instead of looking for an armed white person.)
Over a 1 year period, Albany NY cops pretty much only targeted Black folks for arrest for weed (97% of arrests)... the city is 27% Black.
“The database lists active-duty officers who’ve had at least one allegation against them substantiated by the CCRB: That’s about 4,000 officers out of the NYPD’s 36,000-member force.“
“...in 100 public school districts, children were physically restrained more than 15,000 times between August 2017 and December 2018.”