Leigh Kunkel never saw the federal agent pointing a pepper ball gun at her face from about twenty feet away. Kunkel, a freelance journalist at a protest outside an immigration detention center in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Officers from the Department of Homeland Security fire less-lethal weapons at protesters who gathered in response to immigration ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Federal agents target protesters with "less lethal" weapons at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on October 18 ...

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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, ...

Instead of engaging in discussion, UCLA decided to arm university police and frighten students into conformity. Supporters of the less-than-lethal munitions argue that protests in the past have ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Explosions echoed between buildings in Portland's South Waterfront neighborhood. Sudden bursts of light cut through the crowd, and clouds of smoke filled the street. On Jan. 31, as ...

If you value independent local news, become a sustainer today. Your gift could help unlock a $1M challenge. Los Angeles police officers used more than 1,000 less-lethal munitions and wounded six ...

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.

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 ...