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CNN: Federal agents shoot tear gas at children

Federal agents routinely violate their own rules for how so-called less-lethal weapons are used against people protesting against immigration police arrests. This is reported by CNN.

The channel has reviewed a series of video clips from various situations in which ICE and other authorities, among other things, use chemical weapons such as tear gas near children and shoot rubber bullets or similar ammunition into the faces of protesters. In most cases, according to CNN, there are also no clear threats to the agents' own safety.

- They have violated all rules for less-lethal weapons and crowd management, says former border police officer Gil Kerlikowske.

The US Department of Homeland Security defends the action, which they believe was necessary to disperse crowds.

Authority: Protesters can expect violence

The US Department of Homeland Security is not backing down an inch after CNN's investigation into federal agents violating their own rules when using so-called less-lethal force against people protesting against the immigration police ICE.

"If you obstruct law enforcement, you can expect to be met with violence," the agency wrote in a statement.

CNN's review of video footage from the extensive protests in recent months shows that agents have, among other things, fired rubber bullets and pepper balls into the faces of protesters.