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

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

Dr. Rohini Haar, a medical adviser for Physicians for Human Rights, explained that the pepper balls “cause a lot of pain from ...

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

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 ...

Law enforcement agencies are defending their use of non-lethal pepper ball rounds during an hours-long anti-ICE protest in ...

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

Multiple members of the media have been injured by nonlethal rounds fired by law enforcement while covering dayslong protests over the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in Los Angeles, ...

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“Less-lethal equipment is used by police departments as a de-escalation tactic in high-stakes situations to reduce the need for higher levels of force,” Scott Scheffler, UCPD’s captain of the ...