got tear gassed

Yesterday I went to the center of town to get some copies of keys made,   as i got closer I noticed smoke coming from one of the streets,  so I thought id go check it out.   I asked around and found out they were having politcal demonstrations and it was turning pretty ugly,  burning cars and government buildings.   I was curious to see more so I kept walking,  I walked into the middle of a crowd of people that were throwing rocks and glass bottles at the police in full roit gear.  It got pretty chaotic then I thought to myself, I should be going now:   Then the big dogs rolled in,   three armored trucks carrying about ten police shooting tear gas into the streets and the mob of people.  I turned to run one way but there was another crowd of people running from that direction, with more police firing tear gas at them,   I found a store front to step into out of the way of the crowd then managed to get out of there with water flowing from my eyes and nose hairs singed.   I heard that it was a lot worse today and they have blocked all roads coming in and out of the city.  Ive only been here a week so im not sure but I think this is pretty normal so im not too alarmed.    Well i hope to figure out how to get some pictures on this blog soon.     skip