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.

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    You can use the power you have, even from outside the USA.

    Kick America in the wallet.

    Boycott anything that is made in USA. And any american parent company that sells products in your country.

    Don’t travel there (which I assume you already have chosen).

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      Indeed, and I’m glad you highlighted these things. It’s something I have been trying to do, as well as increasing people’s awareness of these choices. It feels like it makes so little difference, but it’s not nothing.

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        Every bit you cut out is progress. I’m happy to help give direction to anyone who needs it. Aside from checking the labels of what I buy, I’ve now stopped using/don’t have an account with Meta, Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google-owned Android, and of course anything Musk. A dent is a dent, no matter how small.

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      Also write to your government representatives about removing copyright anti-circumvention laws saying that they hurt the local economy and only benefit big tech companies from the US.

      This is important because US big-tech backed Trump into taking office and Trump is beholden to these companies who have the US economy purse strings.

      Individual countries removing these laws will make the money holders VERY nervous and they in turn will pull the strings the US government officials dance with.