Assertion: tear gas's use | /r/CapableOf | skyrocket in apparent desperate effort
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text: Although Hong Kong police deployed tear gas during the Umbrella Movement protests that paralyzed large swathes of the city’s business district for two months in 2014, its use has skyrocketed in recent days in an apparent desperate effort to quell intensifying protests by hundreds of thousands of protestors who have flooded Hong Kong’s streets in a tenacious display of defiance to perceived threats to Hong Kong’s rights and freedoms.