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 ...

Police have been banned from using a powerful, non-lethal weapon to control protests in an extraordinary federal court decision. Judge Consuelo B. Marshall ruled on Thursday the Los Angeles Police ...

Bruises, loss of vision or the loss of an eye – injuries during protests have drawn more attention to what police call "non-lethal" tools. An expert tells us there are certain categories: Chemical ...

Sometimes the military would prefer its enemies writhing in pain as opposed to dead on the ground. For times like that, it enlists the Joint Non-Lethal Directorate, which produces a reference book of ...