San Diego County supervisors voted Tuesday to explore phasing out pepper spray in local juvenile detention facilities, citing concerns that probation officers use the chemical agent instead of trying ...

The March 6 scuffle left parents and students concerned about whether the use of pepper spray was warranted.

KINGSTON, N.Y. — Testimony in the ongoing murder trial of former state trooper Christopher Baldner on Friday focused on state police policy and procedures when it comes to high-speed pursuits, the use ...

A Federal Protective Service incident commander and five agency officers said in videotaped depositions played in court Tuesday that they fired pepper balls or doused protesters with hand-held pepper ...

San Diego County Board of Supervisors Vice Chair Monica Montgomery Steppe is asking her colleagues to support a proposal that could phase out the use of pepper spray in local juvenile detention ...

WASHINGTON — D.C. police indiscriminately used nonlethal weapons on demonstrators and arrested people who appeared to be breaking no laws during inauguration protests at Franklin Square, according to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Protesters who showed up at several Zipps bars in Phoenix to oppose raids by the Department of Homeland Security said they were ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. (WEAR) — One of the men arrested in the pepper spray incident during the Pensacola Charlie Kirk vigil is telling his side of the story. WEAR News reported last week that 56-year-old ...

A Los Angeles County probation officer has been placed on administrative leave pending an internal affairs investigation for carrying and using pepper spray during a ...