Federal Tear Gas Seeped Into the Jail Next Door, Choking and Terrifying the Inmates

PORTLAND —Willamette Week July 24, reported that federal troops scattered Portland protesters from around the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse are also inadvertently deploying tear gas on the people jailed next door. On the morning of July 21, a defense lawyer said, female inmates woke around 1 a.m. to the sounds of another inmate screaming, “I can’t breathe!”

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