So when it first started going off, I was genuinely kind of confused.

I was like, is there like a car alarm that's malfunctioning?

Is there like a fire alarm in a house right now?

This is Michelle Lindor, describing her experience at a protest in Rochester, New York.

And then I saw the tanks being driven in and then moving that big flat platform.

And I was just like, what is that?

And my friend Gabe turned to me and he's like, that's an LRAD.

I'm like, I have no idea what that is.

Now, Michelle had been to protests before.

She'd been hit with pepper spray and heard flash grenades,

but she had never experienced anything like this.

It's a weird feeling, and it kind of vibrates your whole head.

My friend Gabe said he could feel it in his chest almost, that it was just so heavy.

Michelle was standing near the front of the crowd, about 40 feet from where the sound was coming from.

She thought about running away, but she fought through it.

I physically made myself, like, plant myself in where I was.

But I wanted to get away and I wanted to leave.

And I held my hands over my ears a lot or plugged my ears a lot

or tried talking while it was going on.

When the protesters refused to leave, things got even worse.

So as soon as they started using the Al-RAD and we weren't moving back, they started physically

pushing our line back and that's when the tear gas started and the pepper bullets started.

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