There’s a report that the police have resorted to stronger gas and they are using phosgene on the protesters.
Any idea how potent that stuff is?
In the days that I was in the NG, our rating on anti-riot agents was, from mildest to strongest: smoke, CN, CS, and a combination of CN and CS. We didn’t have ‘pepper’ spray/gas, but if we had, it would have fitted in between smoke and CN. The combination of CN/CS was the most dangerous because it could cause an allergic reaction which made it very difficult to breathe. Multiple exposures to CS could also cause allergic reactions, mostly to exposed skin.
Phosgene is a WWI poison gas, extremely lethal, and I cannot imagine any Government I ever served or worked for using it on their own citizens International treaties forbid its use in war. If someone deploys phosgene, you will know because there will be dead bodies all over the place.
Phosgene is the chemical compound with the formula COCl2. A colorless gas, in low concentrations its odor resembles freshly cut hay or grass.[6] Phosgene is a valued industrial building block, especially for the production of urethanes and polycarbonate plastics. However, it is very poisonous, and was used as a chemical weapon during World War I, where it was responsible for 85,000 deaths.
“...a report that the police have resorted to stronger gas and they are using phosgene...”
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Do you have a link to that report?
IT’LL KILL YA.
Outlawed by the Geneva Convention.
It’s POISON GAS!
....”Any idea how potent that stuff is?”.....
It was checked and reported as ‘police grade’ not military grade’....Police grade is designed for protests that get out of hand to push back the mobs.