Crowd-control weapons can cause severe and sometimes permanent injuries. Chemical irritants affect the eyes, skin and lungs ...

The U.S. Army is rewriting how it trains its force, and this time it is cutting deep. Under a sweeping overhaul of Army Regulation 350-1, the service is eliminating more than 350 hours of mandatory ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Police are often called upon to handle dangerous situations and react in a split second. Today, they have more tools at their disposal to deal with unruly people. There is ...

NORTH CHARLESTON – Officers have access to an additional tool that is expected to help de-escalate situations before it becomes necessary to use deadly force. The North Charleston Police Department ...

Welts, watery eyes, temporary blindness: Zoom in on crowd control tactics used against protesters ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LAPD officers arrive to push back demonstrators advocating for immigrant rights outside the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building on ...

Tear gas fills the street as protesters confront Border Patrol personnel during a demonstration over the dozens detained in an operation by federal immigration authorities a day earlier in the ...

This story was originally published by ProPublica. As the Trump administration’s immigration dragnet intensified in June, a nurse in Portland, left work one midafternoon and drove to a nearby ...

Sergio Espejo didn't come to Los Angeles with activism in mind. He planned to visit a friend as he had done many times in the past. Except, this summer the city was engulfed in protests, sparked by a ...

LOS ANGELES -- A federal judge banned Los Angeles Police Department officers from using some less-lethal launchers at protests, after finding that the department violated previous court restrictions ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LAPD officers keep an eye on "No Kings" protesters at City Hall in downtown Los Angeles on June 14. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles ...

A federal judge banned Los Angeles Police Department officers from using some so-called less-lethal launchers at protests, after finding that the department violated previous court restrictions by ...