Sam was one of hundreds of peaceful protesters gathered outside the CNN Center in downtown Atlanta on Monday night.
An anthropologist in her early 20s who studies social movements, she was among those in the crowd chatting with friends around 8:30 p.m., shortly before the city's 9 p.m. curfew.
Then large groups of protesters sprinted away and Sam felt acute panic and the all-out assault on her senses as tear gas reached her group about 50 yards from police. It's a nonlethal compound that has been used in the US since the 1950s, according to a 2016 paper in the Annals of New York Academy of Sciences.
"I'm just a pastor but it feels like I'm suiting up for war," said Douša."People I've been supporting have seen the tear gas and the violence." The Street Medic Guide recommends using milk if the first option isn't available. Another option is a mixture of water and sodium bicarbonate .
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