Vincent Hawkins still has the megaphone he was holding when his face was mangled by a tear gas canister. Blood streamed down ...

U.S. District Judge Consuelo Marshall granted a contempt motion by attorneys for Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles that called ...

Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons during immigration ...

An order sent this week says officers "shall not" the launchers for crowd control - after a federal judge's found the LAPD ...

According to LAPD policy, officers are only allowed to deploy 40mm “less-lethal” launchers when there is an immediate threat ...

Police have been banned from using a powerful, non-lethal weapon to control protests in an extraordinary federal court ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Law enforcement officials in Los Angeles began deploying "less lethal" munitions on Sunday as they clashed with crowds protesting federal immigration raids. "Less lethal" or ...

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They were developed during the civil rights movement to reduce harm, but their rampant use during anti-ICE protests has led ...

LAPD Force Investigation Unit Reviewing Use of Batons, Less Lethal Weapons In Arrest Last Week originally appeared on L.A. Mag. Skirmish lines like this one have been used to quell agitators who have ...

A serious interaction with law enforcement can have deadly consequences. In 2024, there were 32 fatal incidents of police shootings in Pennsylvania. The first was Jan. 7, when Christopher Lee Shepherd ...

Arguing that the 1st Amendment "demands better," a federal judge barred federal agents from targeting reporters and nonviolent protesters with crowd control weapons. Lawyers for the city of Los ...