CNN’s Whitney Wild Says ‘It’s a Little Hard to Breathe’ with Flashbangs and Tear Gas Utilized by Law Enforcement

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WILD: "Okay, we are near 23rd and Lyndale. It‘s not exact location, but we‘re a couple blocks away. Sorry. It‘s a little hard to breathe because they just let off several flashbangs, multiple tear gas canisters that were coming off all around us. And at one point it became so foggy that my producer, Meredith Edwards, and I got separated from our photographer, Jonathan Shearer. Things have calmed down a little bit now, but you‘ll see -- can you walk with me, Jon — are you okay to walk, or do you want to stay here? Okay. You can‘t see, just over my side here, there‘s still multiple federal agents and a growing crowd. Very angry here. Following them all around the neighborhood, from what we‘ve seen. This is all because -- what we know, according to the Department of Homeland Security, around 6:50 Central Time, law enforcement was conducting an operation where they say that they were going after a specific target, and when they tried to approach that target, he ran, he jumped into a car, he fled in a vehicle and then crashed. Again, this is according to the Department of Homeland Security. Again, they‘re saying that in an attempt to evade arrest, the subject fled the scene in his vehicle and then crashed, and once law enforcement was able to catch up with that subject, they attempted to arrest that subject. He was — he was fighting back. While that officer and the subject were on the ground, apparently fighting, according to the Department of Homeland Security, other people began attacking law enforcement. That‘s when the subject got loose and began striking the officer with a shovel or a broomstick, and that‘s when DHS says that the officer fired what they are calling defensive shots. They‘re now saying that that officer and the subject are in the hospital. The other two people who were engaged in this attack are in custody. But this is a city that is already on edge. And what you‘re seeing right now is a major reaction.”