Blythe Terrell

And I also asked Jennifer a little bit more just about like how it feels exactly.

If I get hit with tear gas, what happens?

Maybe.

Maybe.

Maybe, Jennifer.

So yeah, I mean, of course, getting exposed to tear gas feels worse than that, like stronger.

It's also not only that, T, the other protester we talked to, the one we heard from at the top, he said that you can also kind of feel like this grittiness when it hits you.

And so to go into sort of more of what's inside this grit, this powder, yeah.

There are a bunch of different chemicals that can be used in tear gas, like active chemicals.

So one common one is known as CS.

There's one that's called CN, something called OC in pepper spray.

So these are the ingredients that make your eyes hurt?

Yeah, this is like the stuff that can cause that peppery feeling that Jennifer was talking about and the tearing up.

But one thing that is tricky is that Jennifer said that it's really tough to know exactly what's getting used on people.

Yeah.

And when I talked to T on Saturday, here's what he told me.

It feels worse?

Like, how so?

Yeah, I mean, I asked him for how long.

He said it was like seven or eight minutes before he could see again.