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Within seconds they surround his car, at the same time pressing protesters back as they begin to lob tear gas canisters.

In white coverall suits and full-face respirators, hazmat workers went property by property sifting through the ashes to dredge up lead-acid batteries, tins of paint thinner and pesticide canisters.

Vera disagreed, writing in his order that “launching scorching-hot tear gas canisters directly at people… will undoubtedly chill the media’s efforts to cover these public events.”

They have been stored in canisters, and will be deposited on the surface of Mars awaiting a mission that could return them.

From BBC

Border Patrol agents with a deadly or dangerous weapon — a canister of their own tear gas.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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