Police deployed tear gas late on Friday in efforts to disperse protesters who gathered at the Arizona Capitol building in Phoenix in the wake of a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that tossed out the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.
Police declared the gathering an unlawful assembly after several among the thousands of protesters began hitting glass walls and doors of the state Capitol building, with one person having smashed a window at the state Department of Agriculture building on Adams Street, reported The Arizona Republic.
Afterward, SWAT team members with the state’s Department of Public Safety fired tear gas from the building to disperse the protesters, KPHO-TV reported. It wasn’t immediately known if there were injuries or arrests….