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 fight involving 14 girls at a ...

“These are chemical weapons that are harmful to the human body and harmful to particularly vulnerable folks, like children,” says Asha Hassan, an epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WGHP) — A school ...

When Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall reopened in July 2023, probation officers arriving for their first shifts were forced to surrender the pepper spray canisters they had relied on to combat fights and ...

An arrest has been made after a group fight at a Stanton ShopRite over the weekend resulted in pepper spray being used on multiple people. At about 2:57 p.m. Jan. 18, a Delaware State Trooper ...

Alarmed by a spike in pepper spray use and threats of sound cannons at protests, human rights groups want a review of "less ...

Berkeley City Council’s Public Safety Committee unanimously approved the removal of the Berkeley Police Department’s pepper spray reporting requirement Thursday.

SEATTLE — Seattle police acknowledged pepper spray was used in a violent confrontation with protesters near the Henry M. Jackson Federal Building in downtown Seattle, the first such use under a new ...

The patient was wielding a pair of surgical scissors at other officers when he rushed into the fray to stop the incident. "I hit her hard," the release quoted Pike as saying. "For me, it was just a ...