Blythe Terrell

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.

That's a long time.

Yeah, he had to have people help him sort of pouring water in his eyes and stuff.

And we don't really know if it was worse for him that time because the chemical was stronger or the chemical was different.

It's possible that he was closer to it or was exposed in a different way.

We don't know.