The Seattle City Council passed an ordinance that allows Seattle police to use less lethal weapons during crowd management situations. The ordinance repealed a previous ordinance and section of the ...

Tear gas has been employed 29 times in the current fiscal year so far, according to the numbers provided to INSIDER. Under Obama, immigration authorities also used pepper spray frequently at the ...

The Seattle City Council Tuesday reauthorized the use of blast balls, pepper spray, tear gas, and pepper balls by police for crowd-control purposes, despite the objections of people who said they ...

Rules around how Seattle police can control crowds with less-lethal weapons like blast balls, tear gas and pepper spray hinge on a final vote by city councilmembers on Tuesday. The decision by ...

Serbian opposition lawmakers threw smoke grenades and used pepper spray inside parliament on Tuesday to protest against the ...

The city held a town hall Tuesday night to hear residents thoughts on crowd control as the city develops a new policy per a ...

Police justified their use of a multitude of so-called less lethal weapons, like tear gas, pepper spray and paintballs, claiming they only used the weapons when they were facing direct threats of ...

The normally quiet neighborhood of Tai Koo saw tear gas and pepper spray on Thursday night as anti-government protesters demonstrated against a proposed mask ban at public gatherings. Anti ...

The Seattle City Council passed a bill Tuesday allowing police officers — in limited cases — to use weapons like tear gas, pepper spray and blast balls to control crowd movement during protest.