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When you're surrounded by tear gas, your nose, your mouth, the area around your eyes like starts to burn.

You can't stop crying. Your chest kind of feels like it's collapsing onto itself. It's difficult to breathe.

You're producing all kinds of snot and like saliva and it's gross.

You feel the anxiety that comes with not being able to breathe properly.

This is my friend and former colleague Roberto Daza. He's a TV producer for Vice News.

Last week, Daza and his crew arrived in Minneapolis to cover the George Floyd protests.

Kirby was in effect.

There were peaceful protests that were still happening at the time, but law enforcement,

state troopers, local PD, made their presence felt quite quickly.

You would see Minneapolis police officers in regular attire,

regular uniform, patrolling the area, and then over the course of the night it kind of changed.

You see more law enforcement wearing right gear wearing helmets,

holding batons.

Like the mood just changed in correlation to what we were seeing. So I've done a lot of conflict zone coverage throughout my career probably over the last like

ten years deployments around the world in places like Venezuela

clashes between law enforcement and residents in South Africa and Colombia and Mexico

It's completely normal in Venezuela that anytime you decide to like take out a camera or any law enforcement

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