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British tear gas sales to US secretly suspended - and then resumed
A protester tries to reason with police firing tear gas at crowds in Atlanta. A British photographer, Adam Gray, was arrested for covering the protests over police killing black people
THE government secretly suspended sales of tear gas to the US amid concerns of police brutality against Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters, but has now renewed them again.
Whitehall officials quietly suspended exports of riot control equipment to the US to allow a review to be carried out into the sales, according to the Independent.
However the government’s legal department last week concluded that there was “no clear risk” that the equipment has been used for internal repression, which would violate Britain’s export licensing rules.
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