A Fullerton police officer killed a man while using so-called less-lethal munitions. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times) In the dark, early-morning hours outside a McDonald's in Orange County, a police ...

Law enforcement agencies are expanding their less-lethal toolkits to include TASERs, compliance gloves, and specialized ...

This article was originally published on our sister publication The Portland Mercury‘s blog Blogtown, where you can find ongoing coverage of Portland’s protests related to the killing of George Floyd.

Launchers that shoot ‘bullet-like missiles’, chemical irritants and stinger grenades: experts say these weapons can cause serious injury or even death. But they are deployed by police against crowds w ...

Less-lethal” weapons are broadly defined by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as weapons or instruments that are “designed or intended to be used in a manner that is not likely to cause death ...

That video comes from last night, when protesters gathered outside the Penumbra Kelly Building—which houses a Multnomah County Sheriff’s office—and police declared and unlawful assembly before ...

This post was updated April 28 at 7:34 p.m. It was natural to find aspiring journalist and UCLA student Parker Hupf snapping photographs of the crowd from a freeway overpass during a June 2025 ...

In the early hours of July 25, Mac Smiff was standing in Lownsdale Square, tweeting a photo of the protests, when he was shot in the head with a “less lethal” indelible paintball fired by a federal ...