JFC on X:
BREAKING: Greg Bovino and his Border Patrol agents deployed toxic green chemical gas right outside a PARK AND PLAYGROUND, down the street from an ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in Minneapolis… immediately after dismissal.
And a school bus was forced to drive straight through the gas.
Sit with that.
Agents fired multiple canisters of green chemical irritant gas at Mueller Park, right down the street from Ella Baker Global Studies & Humanities Magnet School, just minutes after school let out… As children were heading to the park and buses were actively transporting students home.
The gas spread across the playground, through the park, and into the surrounding residential blocks, while families and kids were on their way home from school.
And this wasn’t “normal” crowd control smoke, or even normal pepper spray.
This type of gas is linked to burning skin and eyes, coughing, vomiting, chest pain, and serious respiratory injury, with the risk of delayed and long-term lung damage.
It is especially dangerous for children, infants, pregnant people, and anyone with asthma or other respiratory condition… which is exactly why the U.S. military stopped using it decades ago.
And yet, it was deployed here.
In front of a park.
Near a school.
At dismissal.
Instead of driving away from protesters, Border Patrol chose to stop. They got out of their vehicles, escalated a non-situation, and deployed chemical gas in a public park surrounded by homes, and an elementary school.
school.in the video, you can hear Bovino ordering people to “get back,” warning he would deploy gas…Not because anyone was in front of their vehicles.
Not because they were blocked.
But because protesters were standing on public sidewalks, filming.
And Greg didn’t deploy the gas into the street…Oh no.They threw it toward the park. Agents threw it up next to the playground, forcing people to run.
Later forcing a school bus to drive straight through the smoke.
After gassing the area, agents walked onto the public sidewalk, assaulting people who were simply recording, then got back in their cars and drove away… leaving residents coughing and scrambling to escape the toxic chemicals.
And, to make this even worse…Border Patrol has no crowd-control authority.
They were not executing an operation.
They had no legal justification to stop, escalate, or use chemical force.
Unless their “mission” was terrorizing a public park near a school, they had zero authority to stop and gas civilians.
This is what reckless, unlawful federal force looks like.
This is how communities are being terrorized, poisoned, and children traumatized.
And this is what happens when agents believe there will be no consequences.
They deployed toxic chemical gas at a public park, near a school, at dismissal, and drove away like it was nothing.
That should alarm everyone because nothing is stopping it from happening to you next.