The Bee County Sheriff’s Office is continuing training on less-than-lethal force options as part of an ongoing effort to strengthen officer safety, professional accountability, and responsible ...

Several fatalities stemming from supposedly ‘less-lethal’ police weapons are now the subject of coronial inquests, adding to pressure for tougher constraints on their use.

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 ...

A Fullterton police officer killed a man in 2024 by firing a bean bag round that pierced the man's chest. The use of force was ruled justified, but the incident raises questions about law ...

Sheriff Ezell Brown and the Newton County Sheriff’s Office graduated 16 law enforcement officers from the agency’s Basic SWAT Training Course, held Feb. 9-13.

Tear gas fills the street as protesters confront Border Patrol personnel during a demonstration over the dozens detained in an operation by federal immigration authorities a day earlier in the ...

Establishing non-lethal response aimed as an early intervention capability through training, policy, and repetition to help resolve encounters safely before escalation occurs MIAMI, Jan. 12, 2026 ...

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 ...

The Phoenix Police Department’s less-lethal training supervisor for the 40 mm, Jake Rasmussen, explained that the weapons are single-shot Penn Arms L140s that fire projectiles made from a dense ...

Turrell Clay, 33, had an outstanding felony parole violation warrant and was wanted in connection with an armed robbery. From the front and back of the house, officers aimed at Clay with launchers ...