After Lying For An Entire Year, DC Police Finally Admit Tear Gas Was Used On Peaceful Protesters For Trump's Bible Photo-Op; People At The Scene Posted Pictures Of Empty Tear Gas Canisters During The Attack, But Police Kept Lying And Lying And Lying And Lying

Teargaslighting: Today marks one year since Donald Trump's infamous photo-op at St John's Church, and DC Police – through an attorney – is finally admitting that law enforcement used tear gas that day against peaceful protestors. #RollTheTape pic.twitter.com/Wt1FrnsS9Z

— Brianna Keilar (@brikeilarcnn) June 1, 2021

It was an absolute joke. People were posting photos of the spent canisters that day, yet they were still lying about it. Smoke bombs? Yeah smoke bombs don't dissipate like that, Fox. We saw what we saw. Excellent job as always, Brianna.

— BlackCat! (@BlkPanther702) June 1, 2021

Let's not forget he wanted to use heat rays and sound canons. What an awfulness, and our fellow Americans would say that was great, get the Dems!https://t.co/QB25xsX2bw

— SHOOK & STIRRED (@DebbyB813) June 3, 2021

Using tear gas is a war crime.

— MzCheng (@MzCheng363) June 1, 2021

That is true. And has been true for almost 100 years.

The 1925 Geneva Protocol categorized tear gas as a chemical warfare agent and banned its use shortly after World War I. . . . One noteworthy fact is that the United States [refused] did not ratify that agreement until  fifty years later (1975).

And . . .:

When it did, it reserved the right to use riot control agents to control "rioting prisoners of war," among other exceptions. . . . 

In 1993, the United Nations General Assembly finalized the Chemical Weapons Convention, which banned the development, production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons and required countries to destroy the chemical weapons and production facilities it possessed.

Included in the agreement was also a ban on riot control agents in warfare. Such agents were defined as "any chemical not listed in a Schedule, which can produce rapidly in humans sensory irritation or disabling physical effects which disappear within a short time following termination of exposure."

The Chemical Weapons Convention went into effect in 1997. But notably, the agreement included an exception allowing law enforcement to use riot control agents for "domestic riot control purposes."

That is like how the 13th Amendment to the Constitution bans slavery in the US, but also makes an exception just in case the country really needs some slavery (and it turns out, it does):

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

When the United States finally outlawed slavery, it actually said: "We don't support slavery, but . . ."