“These are chemical weapons that are harmful to the human body and harmful to particularly vulnerable folks, like children,” ...

With federal agents using pepper spray at recent protests, doctors explain how it affects the body, how to rinse it out ...

According to research published in journals from the American Thoracic Society (ATS), inhaling tear gas or pepper spray—even during a single incident—can harm respiratory function and increase the ...

ICE’s “less lethal” weapons, including tear gas and pepper spray pellets, have serious health impacts, experts say. One ...

San Diego County Board of Supervisors Vice Chair Monica Montgomery Steppe is asking her colleagues to support a proposal that could phase out the use of pepper spray in local juvenile detention ...

San Diego County supervisors voted Tuesday to explore phasing out pepper spray in local juvenile detention facilities, citing concerns that probation officers use the chemical agent instead of trying ...

JASPER COUNTY, Texas — Correctional officers with the Jasper County Sheriff's Office completed mandatory oleoresin capsicum (OC) pepper spray training this week at the sheriff's office complex. The ...

The Little Rock Police Department defended officers’ use of pepper spray in Little Rock schools at last week’s Little Rock School Board meeting. On Thursday night, LRPD Assistant Chief Andre Dyer ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — 6 News has obtained surveillance video of a pepper-spraying incident of two young men in late August that appears to challenge the official narrative from the East Lansing ...

RICHMOND, Va. — New body camera video obtained by CBS 6 shows the moments leading up to a Richmond sheriff's deputy pepper spraying a teenage fan at a Turnstile concert on Brown's Island last month.