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Following a second fatal shooting by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, public health experts are sounding a stark warning about the immediate and long-term effects of the agency’s use of even non-lethal crowd control weapons like tear gas, pepper bombs and flash-bang grenades.

On Saturday, video evidence showed ICE agents pepper spraying Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old veterans intensive care unit nurse, before wrestling him to the ground, where he was shot. Pretti was declared dead at the scene. Forensic audio analysis revealed at least 10 shots fired in less than five seconds.

“The justification for the use of [crowd control weapons] is that they reduce these kind of violent clashes, escalations, and so should really only be used as kind of a last-ditch measure to prevent violence and death and injuries,” Ryan Marino, an emergency room physician and medical toxicologist in Cleveland told Raw Story....

Federal health officials on Monday announced a dramatic rollback on recommended childhood vaccines, cutting back the number of diseases prevented by routine shots from 17 to 11, according to reports.

The major move was pushed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, who has long claimed that children should not have as many vaccines, The New York Times reported.

Public health experts, including pediatricians, have been critical of the Trump administration's shift in vaccine recommendations for children....