Further question: Do you consider the Branch Davidian compound attack to be "the military using tear gas on US citizens on US soil?" They used an engineering tank to puncture the building's outer walls to pump teargas into the building full of children.
Interestingly, the entire botched Waco raid was for a photo op, so maybe this is par for the course in American politics now. That was why the media was along for the initial attack that started it all. I guess they figured (correctly) that it would be much more exciting TV for the Feds to attack the compound than to arrest David Koresh on one of his many regular trips into Waco.
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