While some federal agencies have specific rules around less-lethal weapons – including CBP, which prohibits intentionally firing pepper balls at heads unless deadly force is justified, among other ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Fullerton police officer killed a man while using so-called less-lethal munitions. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times) In the dark ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man was shot in the eye by a less-than-lethal round after anti-ICE protesters and police clashed in Los Angeles on Saturday, ...

A woman who was shot in the face with a less-than-lethal round by a police officer while attending a protest in downtown Los Angeles plans to file an excessive force lawsuit. On Jan. 30, Jasmin Lomas, ...

Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee on Friday launched a probe into the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) arsenal of “less lethal” weapons, citing a string of serious injuries, ...

Several fatalities stemming from supposedly ‘less-lethal’ police weapons are now the subject of coronial inquests, adding to pressure for tougher constraints on their use.

AUSTIN, Texas — Anthony Evans, a man shot in the jaw by a less-lethal round during the May 31 Black Lives Matter demonstrations in Downtown Austin, on Tuesday filed a federal civil rights lawsuit ...

DOWNTOWN, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Two protests in downtown Los Angeles on Friday and Saturday were overall peaceful before the night fell, and smaller groups of demonstrators faced off with law ...

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A woman who was shot in the face with a less-lethal round at a recent ICE protest is now filing a claim against the Los Angeles Police Department. Friday marks three ...

This post was updated Nov. 30 at 7:05 p.m. A university police department should protect its students, not harm them. But in late September, the UC Board of Regents approved a UCPD request for ...

Police officers and sheriff’s deputies used excessive force on an Orange County accountant who was shot in the side of the head with a less-than-lethal launcher while walking away from law enforcement ...