SWAT team used tear gas after protesters threw bricks and bottles, Bonner says
Protestors throw smoke bombs back at the Shelby County Sheriff's Deputies during a protest over the murder of George Floyd May 31, 2020. That same evening the SWAT team used tear gas after protesters threw bricks and bottles, Sheriff Floyd Bonner said. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner said the sheriff’s office SWAT team used C.S. gas, or “tear gas,” in a May 31 protest Downtown after bricks and bottles were thrown at them as they blocked some protesters from trying to get on the Hernando DeSoto Bridge.
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