Article 5H8TX Teargas, flashbangs: the devastating toll of police tactics on Minnesota children

Teargas, flashbangs: the devastating toll of police tactics on Minnesota children

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Lois Beckett
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Families living near Brooklyn Center protests suffer as chemicals enter their homes and kids face a battlefield experience'

As police used teargas and flashbangs on protesters outside the Brooklyn Center police department, young children listened, terrified, from their homes directly across the street.

Among them were two eleven-year-old girls with autism, which makes them intensely sensitive to loud noises, their older sister, Jamiya Crayton, said.

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