A 6-month-old baby was hospitalized after federal law enforcement agents in Minneapolis struck a car full of children with a flash bang, before flooding it with tear gas.

Parents Shawn and Destiny Jackson told Kare11 that they were driving their six children home from a basketball game Wednesday when a protest stopped them in their tracks.

As bystanders rushed the children to the safety of a nearby house, they had to go back for the 6-month old who had stopped breathing. “He was the last person to come in, he was just like, lifeless, like, he had like, foam, like, around his mouth, and you can, he had tears coming out of his eyes,” Destiny told Kare11.

Destiny said she performed CPR on the child while others called emergency services, who arrived shortly after.

  • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    “My 11-year-old, who is autistic, keeps talking about it,” Destiny told Kare11. “He was talking about it all night. I couldn’t sleep because I was scared.”

    When I was a kid, someone threw a brick through my bedroom window as I was heading off to sleep. It scared me so much that I had trouble sleeping for literally years after that. I can’t imagine how much worse the trauma of this must’ve been.

    God, my heart hurts to hear these stories. I’m not in the US, so all I can do is spectate with growing dread and horror.

    I’ve been trying hard to not let myself become numb to this though, nor become too focussed on the big picture of thinking about US’s descent into fascism. I’m equally powerless on that scale of things as I am when witnessing stories like this, but I’ve found it’s better to keep my focus on the small stories. It hurts to hear them, but that hurt is one that is fundamentally good, because it is compassion for my fellow humans. In an odd way, the hurt feels grounding because it’s meant to hurt, because what is going on are crimes against humanity. I’d rather feel this than nothing because it reminds me of the humanity I share with the people who are being oppressed.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 hour ago

      You can use the power you have, even from outside the USA.

      Kick America in the wallet.

      Boycott anything that is made in USA. And any american parent company that sells products in your country.

      Don’t travel there (which I assume you already have chosen).