Topic: tear gas

Anonymous Marks Bahrain Protest by Hacking U.S. Tear Gas Company

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Much of the tear gas that billowed through Bahrain's streets Monday (and throughout the Arab Spring) was made by a Pennsylvania-based company called Combined Systems, so to mark the anniversary of protests in Bahrain, Anonymous took Combined Systems' website offline and dumped its employee and client data on the Web.

By Adam Martin

Nov 30, 2011

Korea's Tear Gas Lawmaker Is Now a National Hero

A week after a South Korean lawmaker set off a tear gas bomb in a parliamentary session, police there haven't brought charges against him and some in the country are hailing him as a hero.

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By Dashiell Bennett

Nov 23, 2011

Just How Lethal Are 'Non-Lethal' Weapons?

The heavy reliance on tear gas, pepper spray, and other "safe" crowd control measures from Oakland to Cairo is raising new concerns about just how much damage police and armies are doing to unarmed citizens. 

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