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. Federal agents target protesters with "less lethal" weapons at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on October 18 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

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