Police agencies’ cache of less-lethal weapons includes Tasers, tear gas canisters and beanbag shotguns. Then there are 40 mm launchers. Escondido police used 40 mm launchers a week ago when two ...
A day after a federal judge issued an order restricting the LAPD's use of "less lethal" projectile launchers against crowds of protesters, Chief Michel Moore Tuesday announced two directives ...
The Los Angeles Police Department says it’ll begin retraining thousands of officers in crowd-control tactics and new rules for using less-lethal weapons adopted following protests in 2020 that saw the ...
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LOS ANGELES — A federal judge Monday issued orders restricting the Los Angeles Police Department’s use of 40mm and 37mm projectile launchers against crowds of protesters, allowing their use only ...
Columbus Police Department is using these 40mm launchers that fires less-than-lethal spongelike projectiles, and the Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Department will purchase similar launchers after the ...
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — The Los Angeles Police Department will have to restrict its use of less-lethal projectile launchers against crowds at demonstrations, a federal judge ruled Monday. In the order, ...
St. Louis police are still searching for a projectile launcher after a 25-year-old man was charged and accused with sneaking into a SWAT bunker and stealing a shotgun, ammo and other gear. ST. LOUIS — ...
LOS ANGELES — A federal judge Monday issued orders restricting the Los Angeles Police Department’s use of 40mm and 37mm projectile launchers against crowds of protesters, allowing their use only ...