On Tuesday night I was at the intersection of 14th and Broadway, just outside Frank Ogawa Plaza, for several harrowing hours: I witnessed police officers firing projectiles indiscriminately into the crowd—not carefully targeting instigators, as OPD policy dictates. Freelance reporter Angela Bacca, who was also there, told me that upon arriving she “got tear gassed almost immediately,” and then saw police fire bean-bag rounds at a woman carrying water to demonstrators to help them rinse tear gas out of their eyes and off their clothes. “They were just shooting at people trying to get them out of the way,” Bacca said. “I definitely thought it was unprovoked.” The OPD has not responded to requests from Mother Jones by phone and email for comment. According to the OPD’s policy, projectile bean bags can only be used narrowly and not for general crowd control:
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