‘Terrorism’: Rihanna Calls the Pepper Spray Attack Against Migrants Seeking Asylum Exactly What It Is

Monique Judge - The Root


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I stan a queen. Don’t you?

Rihanna has been busy basking in the glory of her successful Fenty business ventures, leaving her fans eagerly awaiting new music or some sort of sign that their president still loves them.

She bestows that love in the form of a hot lingerie brand, cosmetics people can’t wait to get their hands on, and that classic, no filter Rihanna opinion that she dispenses every now and then.

Recently, the Bajan queen took to Instagram to express her feelings on the recent attack officials at the U.S./Mexico border launched against members of the migrant caravan seeking asylum.

In case you have not been paying attention, tear gas was launched into a crowd of people—including children. Photographs of the incident have been widely shared, with images of families with crying children in tow attempting to flee the noxious gas.

As The Root’s Anne Branigin described it, it was an “unprecedented and unspeakably cruel act.” These people aren’t attacking our country, they are seeking asylum—and there is nothing illegal about that.

Rihanna posted a screenshot of a tweet from a reporter with the Associated Press which read: “US Border Patrol has just launched tear gas into Mexico. Breeze carrying it hundreds of yards. Parents running away with choking toddlers. #migrantcaravan”

It was a brief and apt description of what happened. Rihanna captioned it with one word: Terrorism.

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Because in the end, that is exactly what it is. The U.S. has a strong history with racial terrorism, and this incident is nothing different. To strike fear in and deter migrants from trying to come here and escape the violence and poor conditions of their home countries, the Trump administration has decided that the best course of action is to launch chemical warfare against children. And this is when they are not locking those same children up in cages and separating them from their families.

The act was inexcusable and should be considered terrorism. That this administration and its leader feel no shame in attacking families with children should be a scary note for us all.

If they do it them, what will they do to you?

Who gives a turd what this chucklehead thinks?

Tear gas used once a month at border under Obama


The same tear-gas agent that the Trump administration is taking heat for deploying against a border mob this weekend is actually used fairly frequently — including more than once a month during the later years of President Barack Obama’s administration, according to Homeland Security data.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has used 2-chlorobenzylidene malononitrile, or CS, since 2010, and deployed it 26 times in fiscal 2012 and 27 times in 2013. The use dropped after that, but was still deployed three times in 2016, Mr. Obama’s final full year in office.

Use of CS rose again in fiscal 2017, which was split between Mr. Obama and Mr. Trump, and reached 29 deployments in fiscal 2018, which ended two months ago, according to CBP data seen by The Washington Times.

SEE ALSO: Trump decries migrant caravan ‘grabbers,’ says tear gas used was ‘very minor form’

Border authorities also use another agent, pepper spray, frequently — including a decade-high record of 151 instances in 2013, also under Mr. Obama. Pepper spray, officially known as Pava Capsaicin, was used 43 times in fiscal year 2018, according to the CBP numbers.

The data poses a challenge to the current anger over the Border Patrol’s use of tear gas Sunday to prevent a mob from busting through sections of old border fence in California.

Critics, including Latin American leaders, immigrant-rights advocates and congressional Democrats, have said use of tear gas is “un-American.”


“It’s horrifying to see tear gas used on mothers and young children as they seek refuge in the United States. That’s not what America should be,” said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat.

Other Democrats complained about threats of “deadly force” against the border incursions, which saw migrants punch through fencing, and launch rocks and bottles at agents who responded to stem the intrusion.

Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, took umbrage at the outrage, questioning where the critics were when tear gas was deployed under Mr. Obama.

“This policy that we use was an Obama-written policy and it was used in 2013 at the same port of entry,” he told CNN, wondering in particular about the intense media interest now versus then.

“The facts are, the policy written under President Obama allows us to use tear gas to disperse a crowd that was very dangerous,” he told the network.

Host Erin Burnett scoffed at Mr. Judd’s facts, saying the agents were using tear gas against women and children this weekend.

“The tear gas was not deployed at the children,” Mr. Judd countered, saying migrants were attempting to use them as human shields.

Some 9,000 members of the migrant caravans are camped in Baja California along the U.S.-Mexico border, plotting their attempts to enter the U.S., according to Mexican press accounts.

Mexican authorities have said 500 migrants were involved in the attempts to storm the border. Some U.S. officials have put the number higher.

Mexico said it has deported 98 caravan members it has identified as part of the violence and chaos.

But that none of my business

OH LORT!!! SNAP

get the fuck out of here curt :hand:

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Originally Posted by deebakes

get the fuck out of here curt :hand:

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