rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/letter/c3-no-tear-gas?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-letter-area-c3-no-tear-gas' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Win Without War https://actionnetwork.org/groups/win-without-war-action https://actionnetwork.org//images/generic_facebook.jpg If tear gas is too dangerous for a battlefield, it has no place on our streets. “It was impossible to breathe, and really, really scary,” Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss said, after being teargassed outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility outside Chicago. Congressional candidates and elected officials like Mayor Biss were among the people who federal officers brutalized with tear gas and pepper balls to suppress protests against Trump’s immigration crackdown. Tear gas is a chemical weapon BANNED for use in warfare by both the Chemical Weapons Convention and Geneva Protocol. Short-term, it causes immediate, intense pain. Long-term effects include chemical burns, blindness, and even death due to the resulting asphyxiation. But these agreements have a critical, gaping exception: they don’t apply to domestic law enforcement. If tear gas is too dangerous for the battlefield, there is NO justification for police using it against people exercising their constitutional right to assemble in our cities. Cities like Denver, Portland, and Seattle have made efforts to ban tear gas from their streets — but these bans need to become the norm nationwide. As federal law enforcement increasingly resorts to tear gas against its own people, Congress must ban the use of tear gas in domestic law enforcement and get it off our streets now. Click “Start Writing” to send a message to your members of Congress demanding that law enforcement be banned from using tear gas to silence dissent. https://actionnetwork.org/letters/c3-no-tear-gas