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 ...

In January, 33-year-old Turrell Clay died not long after being arrested by Phoenix police. An autopsy report released on Aug. 8 – seven months after Clay’s death – pins the blame on the supposedly ...

Harrison police are responding to more mental health crises than ever before. Since 2012, the number of calls dealing with noncompliant people has increased more than 500%, Chief Brian Turack said.

When a man wielding a metal bat charged at police officers outside a southeast Las Vegas Valley apartment complex in September, Metropolitan Police Department officers deployed an electronic control ...

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 ...

Around 2 p.m. on Jan. 10, Phoenix police officers surrounded a home in Maryvale, a neighborhood on the city’s west side. A lone, shirtless man sat on the roof after running from officers and ditching ...

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.

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A man died from blunt force trauma to the chest after being struck by less-lethal rounds fired by Phoenix Police during a Jan. 10 standoff. Though a county attorney's office found the officers' ...

In the dark, early-morning hours outside a McDonald's in Orange County, a police officer fired a shotgun loaded with so-called less-lethal munitions at a man swinging a belt, cursing at officers and ...