Police Use Tear Gas On Abortion Rights Protesters Outside Arizona Capitol

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Police used tear gas to disperse people protesting the overturning of Roe v. Wade late Friday at the Arizona Senate building after some of them knocked on the glass doors, an Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesperson confirmed to CNN.

Tear gas was deployed around 8:30 p.m. from the second floor of the building, the Arizona Republic reported. Hundreds of protesters retreated as the tear gas floated around the Capitol grounds. Lawmakers inside the building could smell tear gas, according to Democratic state Rep. Sarah Liguori.

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Video shared on Twitter shows the crowd running away as police fire tear gas at them from the windows of the building.

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It’s unclear whether any arrests were made. The Arizona Department of Safety did not immediately respond to a request for more information.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/police-tear-gas-abortion-rights-protesters-arizona_n_62b6e96be4b06169caa746c8

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Arizona is now officially a Dictatorship.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. Keep funding those cops! They'll be busy in the coming years!

[Irish_Dem]

2. Did they use tear gas on the violent insurrectionists at the capital building?

[Irish_Dem]

8. So I guess peaceful women protestors should be treated like violent treasonous SOBs.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

12. They weren't all women and they weren't all peaceful nt

[jimfields33]

13. They were pounding on the door.

I think police learned their lessons from January 6th. Get close to any building and it’s over.

[KarenS]

3. of course, they did.

They make up fictional gangs to prosecute here,,,,

[Liberal In Texas]

4. Well, they were pounding on the doors and

some of the doors looked like they were about ready to bust open.

Link to tweet

Cops were probably getting a little nervous. Maybe thought they had a Jan 6 on their hands.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

6. AZ legislature was in session at the time as well

And according to my wife who was there, the bulk of the crowd had left an hour earlier.

[gratuitous]

15. Maybe they were just tourists?

[FelineOverlord]

7. The Douchey AZ Governor probably approves

Link to tweet

BUT SEE THIS VIRAL TWEET IN RESPONSE TO DOUCHEY

Link to tweet

[Triloon]

9. "knocked on the glass doors"

They were not simply knocking on the doors. The video shows them beating on the glass curtain wall extending across the front of the building, an old tactic to get attention, but someone was shaking the hell out of the glass doors, apparently in an attempt to break the latch. Possibly an agitator. The view of it immediately recalls Jan 6. This provoked the police response of firing teargas into the large crowd from the second floor windows without warning, and then the riot police mustered inside the glass doors as the crowd dispersed. The cops are not seen leaving the locked building.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

11. I absolutely think at least some were agitators

My wife was at the protests around 8 and the crowd was leaving peacefully. This all happened an hour later. And some of the footage looked like the douchebros who get off on the "fuck shit up" part of protests.

[jimfields33]

14. And they got some teargas for it.

[Triloon]

17. Yes, that is likely. n/t

[FloridaBlues]

16. Undercover proud boys starting trouble?

[AZSkiffyGeek]

18. Some of the footage I saw was douchey college bros

The sort that trashed Scottsdale Fashion Square after George Floyd.

[FloridaBlues]

19. Thanks