Alarmed by a spike in pepper spray use and threats of sound cannons at protests, human rights groups want a review of "less lethal" weapons for crowd control.

A Federal Protective Service incident commander and five agency officers said in videotaped depositions played in court Tuesday that they fired pepper balls or doused protesters with hand-held pepper ...

A Waynesboro man charged in a Memorial Day theft and pepper-spray assault has been sentenced to seven years in prison.

SPRINGFIELD — A Massachusetts State Police sergeant charged with assault after a traffic stop allegedly mistook cosmetics for ...

A Massachusetts State Police sergeant is facing criminal charges after prosecutors say a routine January traffic stop in Springfield escalated into a confrontation involving pepper spray and physical ...

Force was used against the motorist, including physical force and the deployment” of pepper spray, prosecutors said.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rally in Sydney to protest Israeli President Isaac Herzog's visit to Australia in February 2026 turned violent, with police ...

As a wave of student walkouts protesting federal immigration policies continues across the Tulsa metro, new questions are ...

A six-hour standoff ended early Monday morning when a 32-year-old man was taken into custody. St. Joseph police were called to a domestic disturbance after 9 p.m. Sunday evening at the 1200 block of ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian police fired pepper spray to break up clashes between right-wing nationalists and anti-racism protesters on the streets of Melbourne on Sunday, the latest protest held by ...