Tear gas deployed to home during ICE arrest, attorney says

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — An immigration attorney is voicing his concerns about tear gas being deployed into a home with small children inside.

“My big concern though, is the tear gassing of toddlers. Fortunately, they were held up in a closet. I don’t know what level of exposure everyone received from the gas, but either the officers knew and just shot it in there, not caring or number two, they didn’t do their research,” said Colton Bane, Immigration Attorney, Director of Immigrant Justice Program, Community Legal Center.

Immigration attorney Colton Bane said he responded to an incident Friday night involving a family in Berclair, ICE, and the Memphis Safe Task Force.

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An officer on scene told him police were there because two teens, one of which lived at the home, allegedly prompted a police chase that started at a laundromat…

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