The North Carolina sheriff’s deputy who pepper-sprayed and punched a Black man in the back of the head inside a courthouse — ...

He was an ailing man with only one working lung. When he gave police a hard time outside his home in Trenton, they threw him to the ground and repeatedly pepper-sprayed him. With tragic — and now ...

Nearly a year after a federal lawsuit was filed against the city of Lander and current and former city law enforcement ...

The Puyallup Police Department arrested two 18-year-olds after a brawl broke out between groups of teenagers on a Pierce Transit bus Tuesday night at the South Hill Mall Transit Center. The fight ...

Two police officers jailed for bashing a naked, mentally ill woman have appealed their sentences, arguing their actions were to gain the “upper hand.” ...

Police have used pepper spray to subdue an elderly dementia patient who allegedly wielded a large metal ornament while threatening residents at an aged care home.

Former Assistant Police Chief Paul Williams repeatedly leveraged his position and power during a four-decade career at the ...

A fight broke out between groups of teenagers on a Pierce Transit bus Tuesday night at the South Hill Mall Transit Center in Puyallup, leaving multiple people pepper-sprayed and resulting in two ...

Illinois county jails report thousands of “extraordinary or unusual” incidents every year, but the state doesn’t keep track.

The Illinois Answers Project… Since 2019, eleven Illinois county jails have reported using what they call “pepperball launchers” or “AR pepper ball guns,” according to ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Five women say they have been pepper sprayed by security guards at a South Nashville bar recently. Officials with the Metro Nashville Police Department said they have ...

The crime highlights a cruel tactic increasingly used by thieves across the greater Los Angeles area and across the country ...