Already responded. Folks actually there and would know say there was tear gas. There were also rubber bullets. You think I'm going to buy claims from a park police source over my own eyes and accounts of people actually there? Not for a second. Of course they want to minimize/try to excuse what took place.
Eh, I could see where people would think they were getting tear gassed when it was actually smoke bombs. Smoke may not have an added irritant, but it's irritating to both the eyes and lungs. You see it shot at you and the little smoking canister and everybody is screaming, seems easy to make a false assumption. I'd expect the Marine would know better.
Where did you see accounts of rubber bullets? Link? Did you stand by your hysterics that Trump ordered it? What do your own eyes tell you about that one?
It is a chemical weapon. NBC (Nuclear, Biological and Chemical) deploy it for the Marine Corps. It was designed by the US Chemical Warfare Service. It simply isn't a weapon of mass destruction. But it is a chemical weapon, by every military standard.
True and I'm not saying they deployed it, but there were at least 2 other law enforcement groups there. Someone did.
I saw the rubber bullets fired on live tv as it happened. Will try to find footage and link. Absolutely. He and/or his team (which I apply to him) ordered the protesters moved. Not a question in my mind. There is no way in hell he was going to walk to the church/photo op that close to protesters and all of us know it. That wasn't a spur of the moment decision and was clearly planned out.
You have the same source who told you that they didn’t even know he was coming, GCB, and that their efforts to move protestors stemmed from thrown water bottles and their re-taking an already burned area. You like one and accept it, but dislike the other and reject it. Don’t turn silly, here. Hold the line.
There's quite a bit to digest with Cuomo, Deblasio, and NYC. I don't know if a NYC mayor has had a poor of a 6 months in history as Deblasio (could be wrong, I am not a New Yorker or historian). Just constant oopsies. Cuomo is mad because Deblasio isn't fully utilizing the NYPD, or the 10k national guard assigned in reserve. So what Cuomo is saying in the first tweet and what is happening on the 6/2 tweets isn't as far apart as you think, in terms of what he wants to happen.
The thrown water bottles is a lie per multiple people/media there. If it happened no one saw it. Much more likely LE making shit up to try and excuse the inexcusable.