Leigh Kunkel never saw the federal agent pointing a pepper ball gun at her face from about twenty feet away. Kunkel, a freelance journalist at a protest outside an immigration detention center in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Federal agents target protesters with "less lethal" weapons at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on October 18 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Fullerton police officer killed a man while using so-called less-lethal munitions. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times) In the dark ...

A woman who was shot in the face with a less-than-lethal round by a police officer while attending a protest in downtown Los Angeles plans to file an excessive force lawsuit. On Jan. 30, Jasmin Lomas, ...

Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee on Friday launched a probe into the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) arsenal of “less lethal” weapons, citing a string of serious injuries, ...

Fort Worth Police Chief Eddie Garcia volunteered to be shot with pepper ball ammunition during a recent department demonstration aimed at exploring less-lethal options for officers. Garcia said he is ...

Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee launched a probe Friday into the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) arsenal of “less lethal” weapons, citing a string of serious injuries, ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Explosions echoed between buildings in Portland's South Waterfront neighborhood. Sudden bursts of light cut through the crowd, and clouds of smoke filled the street. On Jan. 31, as ...

This 13 page document lays out DHS policy for use of force. Now these rules apply to Customs and Border Protection, ICE, and Secret Service and make it clear what protocols agents should follow before ...