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Somerville has outlawed the police use of tear gas and places restrictions on the use of other crowd control measures. (Shutterstock)
SOMERVILLE, MA An ordinance unanimously passed by the City Council that bans the use of tear gas by police and places restrictions on non-lethal projectiles and other crowd control measures was signed into law by Mayor Joseph Curtatone Friday, Ward 3 Councilor Ben Ewen-Campen said.
The aim is to protect demonstrators, bystanders and the environment from the indiscriminate, dangerous and even fatal impacts of chemical crowd agents and kinetic impact projectiles during lawful protests, according to the text of the ordinance.