A researcher talks about the risks of “less-lethal” weapons used against protesters.
Crowd-control weapons can cause severe and sometimes permanent injuries. Chemical irritants affect the eyes, skin and lungs first, causing scratches to the surface of the eye, painful skin reactions, ...
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Later, some protesters directly outside the ICE building also appeared to throw objects towards the roof where federal officers fired crowd control munitions, including flash-bang grenades and pepper ...
Los Angeles cops have fired hundreds of rounds of less-lethal ammunition, deployed tear gas and flash bangs to break up the anti-ICE protests that have raged for nearly a week across Southern ...
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — More than 119,000 people have been injured by tear gas and other chemical irritants around the world since 2015 and some 2,000 suffered injuries from “less lethal” impact ...
Isabelle Brourman, an artist was sketching at a recent Minneapolis protest when she blocked a federal riot control round with ...
CHICAGO — The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has halted a federal judge’s order restricting immigration agents’ use of force — including riot control weapons like tear gas and pepper balls — against ...