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.
That story is absolutely shocking and heartbreaking. Reports say federal agents in Minneapolis used flash bangs and tear gas during an operation, and a family driving home with six kids got caught in it their 6 month-old baby stopped breathing and was unconscious until bystanders and the mom gave CPR before medics arrived. Three of the children were taken to the hospital, and the whole thing has left the parents and the community shaken. It doesn’t sound like just a routine police action it raises real questions about how crowd control tactics are being used and whether innocent people should ever get caught up in something like this.