U.S. District Judge Consuelo Marshall granted a contempt motion by attorneys for Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles that called ...

An order sent this week says officers "shall not" the launchers for crowd control - after a federal judge's found the LAPD ...

Law enforcement agencies are defending their use of non-lethal pepper ball rounds during an hours-long anti-ICE protest in ...

Police have been banned from using a powerful, non-lethal weapon to control protests in an extraordinary federal court ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Law enforcement officials in Los Angeles began deploying "less lethal" munitions on Sunday as they clashed with crowds protesting federal immigration raids. "Less lethal" or ...

A federal judge held Los Angeles in contempt of an order governing the police department’s use of less-lethal weapons during ...

As protesters against federal immigration raids have clashed in recent days with law enforcement, the Los Angeles Police Department’s Central Division sent out a warning: “Less Lethal munitions have ...

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“Less-lethal equipment is used by police departments as a de-escalation tactic in high-stakes situations to reduce the need for higher levels of force,” Scott Scheffler, UCPD’s captain of the ...