In a civil rights case that signals a reckoning over police crowd-control tactics, a federal jury has awarded $11.8 million to a Dodgers fan permanently blinded in one eye by LAPD projectiles. The ...

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Federal law enforcement agencies have used crowd control munitions—including kinetic projectiles, chemical rounds and obscurant devices—during immigration protests in multiple U.S. cities under the ...

With Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the National Guard intervening in policing around the country, I was disappointed to read that Suffolk Superior Judge Jackie Cowin ruled against the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Explosions echoed between buildings in Portland's South Waterfront neighborhood. Sudden bursts of light cut through the crowd, and clouds of smoke filled the street. On Jan. 31, as ...

More than four years after Boston City Hall approved a controversial rule limiting police officers’ usage of crowd-control agents such as tear gas and rubber bullets, a state judge has thrown the ...