The vote, rescinding a nearly three-decade-old directive, comes amidst a sea change in BPD’s access to surveillance tech and other hardware.

An altercation near a San Francisco high school ended with several students and staff members being pepper-sprayed Wednesday afternoon, authorities said.

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Eight people were pepper sprayed in front of Leadership High School on Ocean Avenue in San Francisco on Wednesday afternoon, fire department officials said. A San Francisco Fire ...

More than a dozen students had to be hospitalized in Baltimore County after accidentally being pepper-sprayed on a school bus Wednesday morning.Officers were called shortly after 9:30 a.m. on March 11 ...

The court order limits federal agents’ crowd control tactics and concludes that the use of chemical munitions against largely peaceful protests may violate First Amendment rights ...

Students outside Leadership High School wound up getting checked out by firefighters and paramedics today after an altercation on Ocean Avenue that involved pepper spray, officials said. Emergency ...

Federal agents have once again been ordered to limit the use of chemical munitions near the Portland ICE facility, this time in a case brought by protesters.

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 Massachusetts State Police sergeant faces assault charges after investigators say he pepper sprayed a motorist in the face during a traffic stop in western Massachusetts.

Pepper spray is a chemical irritant used for crowd control or self-defense. Exposure to it causes burning and stinging in the eyes, blurred vision, and wheezing, coughing, and breathing difficulties.

Doug Hayes sits at his desk at Hayes Law Offices in Santa Barbara just days after getting pepper-sprayed and thrown to the ground by a federal immigration agent. Pricila Flores Noozhawk A criminal ...

Doug Hayes sits at his desk at Hayes Law Offices just days after getting pepper-sprayed and thrown to the ground by a federal agent. Credit: Pricila Flores / Noozhawk photo A criminal defense attorney ...