Federal agents and city police in St. Paul, Minnesota, clashed with a crowd Tuesday afternoon in the Payne-Phalen neighborhood, where law enforcement deployed chemical irritants onto the gathering protesters.

The crowd started to gather around the residential street near Maryland and Payne avenues late Tuesday morning. Masked federal agents, as well as St. Paul police officers, were at the scene.

A WCCO crew filmed several people as they surrounded a white van at the intersection, and the driver of the vehicle deployed the spray into the crowd. WCCO's Conor Wight said tear gas canisters were deployed as St. Paul police cars tried to get away.

People from the crowd threw items at officers, Wight said, and law enforcement responded by deploying pepper balls. St. Paul police also deployed

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