Officers from the Department of Homeland Security fire less-lethal weapons at protesters who gathered in response to immigration raids in downtown Los Angeles on June 6. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles ...

Reynhout said previous Physicians for Human Rights research on crowd-control weapons indicated that 82 percent of all ...

A federal judge issued a two-week restraining order barring the Los Angeles Police Department from using less-lethal munitions against journalists not posing a threat to law enforcement while covering ...

The wave of violence by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection has brought law enforcement’s use of force coming under renewed scrutiny — though even so-called “less ...

Tear gas fills the street as protesters confront Border Patrol personnel during a demonstration over the dozens detained in an operation by federal immigration authorities a day earlier in the ...

Australian police are using so-called ‘less-lethal’ weapons against protesters with increasing frequency and little scrutiny. Guardian Australia's investigations team built the most comprehensive pict ...

Opinion: UCPD is using less-than-lethal munitions to ‘frighten students into conformity’ An officer carrying a less-than-lethal weapon on campus is pictured. Columnist Michael Gallagher writes that ...

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