(In a recent photo, a marcher throws a canister back toward the officers before it detonates, a terrifying game of hot potato).
Similarly, the carcass projectile found new use in the Livens Projector, a primitive mortar that could throw a large canister of inflammable liquid (it was soon used for poison gas instead).
The metropolitan police chief, Henry Vivas, defended the actions of his force, saying, "It is preferable sometimes to throw a tear gas canister rather than pick up a dead body from the floor".
Officers put on gas masks, and one of them can be seen throwing a smoke canister over a barricade.
Updated at 11.53am BST 10.58am BST Bahrain teargas video Activists in Bahrain have circulated video purporting to show a policeman throwing a teargas canister into a beauty salon.
Mayor Joe Carollo posted $1,500 bond and was released from jail today after spending the night behind bars on a charge that he had hit his wife in the head by throwing a tea canister at her.
After being released, she joined her fellow students in a peaceful march to protest the arrest, during which a police officer threw a teargas canister at her face.
The alleged gunman, who has been identified as James Holmes, 24, is thought to have thrown a gas canister into the theater before opening fire, according to the AP, and some of the victims are being treated for exposure to chemicals that may have come from a canister.
Someone threw a tear-gas canister.
At a Moiseyev opening in September 1986, Russian members of the Jewish Defense League threw a tear gas canister into the audience at the Metropolitan Opera House, sending nearly 4,000 people streaming out of the hall.
