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Gas attack: Wearing a mask to protect himself from flumes, a policeman prepares to fire a tear gas shell into a Scarborough variety store today
Gas attack: Wearing a mask to protect himself from flumes, a policeman prepares to fire a tear gas shell into a Scarborough variety store today

Gas attack: Wearing a mask to protect himself from flumes, a policeman prepares to fire a tear gas shell into a Scarborough variety store today

Date11/28/1991
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Original Toronto Star caption: Gas attack: Wearing a mask to protect himself from flumes; a policeman prepares to fire a tear gas shell into a Scarborough variety store today.
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Gas attack: Wearing a mask to protect himself from fumes, a policeman prepares to fire a tear gas shell into a Scarborough variety store today
Gas attack: Wearing a mask to protect himself from fumes, a policeman prepares to fire a tear gas shell into a Scarborough variety store today
11/28/1991
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A man who held police at bay all night on a west-end rooftop raises his hands in surrender after being blasted with tear gas as a member of the emerge(...)
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Ambulance workers put saline solution into a suspect's eyes after police lobbed tear gas into a Yonge St
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