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 ...

Investigations have begun into several incidents in which protesters suffered severe injuries from “less lethal impact munitions” fired by Austin police this weekend, Police Chief Brian Manley told ...

The April 11 confrontation marks the latest high-profile use-of-force response by Smyrna officers this spring. On March 12, officers shot a suspect after responding to a road-rage call, WSMV reported.

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A federal judge banned Los Angeles Police Department officers from using some so-called less-lethal launchers at ...

Police have been banned from using a powerful, non-lethal weapon to control protests in an extraordinary federal court decision. Judge Consuelo B. Marshall ruled on Thursday the Los Angeles Police ...

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 ...

In a civil rights case that signals a reckoning over police crowd-control tactics, a federal jury has awarded $11.8 million to a Dodgers fan permanently blinded in one eye by LAPD projectiles. The ...

The UCLA Police Department has the smallest stock of lethal weapons in the UC, but the largest stock of less-than-lethal munitions, according to data obtained from the university. The UCLA Police ...

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 ...