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

The Los Angeles Police Department’s own rulebook shows cops face tight limits — and scrutiny — when firing “non-lethal” ...

The LAPD ordered officers this week to stop using one type of less lethal weapon during protests, after a federal judge found ...

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 ...

Minutes after a UC regents committee began debating the purchase of additional less-lethal weapons and ammunition this afternoon, pro-Palestinian students in the UCLA meeting room drowned them out.

As protests have surged across the United States, so has police use of so-called less-lethal munitions. In this video, Newsy breaks down what kinds of munitions are commonly used and Bellingcat's ...

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

“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 ...

This post was updated Sept. 17 at 8:26 p.m. The UC Board of Regents approved the UCLA police department’s request for less-than-lethal munition launchers and sponge rounds at a Wednesday meeting. The ...