In a time when federal law enforcement officers are called on to deal with an ever-increasing number of public protests, the use of chemical agents to manage civil disturbances has increased ...

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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 federal judge indicated Thursday she was having “serious concerns” that federal immigration agents may not be following her court order when it comes to how crowd control measures like tear gas are ...

Greg Bovino, the chief patrol agent for the U.S. Border Patrol El Centro sector, right, walks along protester that was detained near an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Ill., ...

The shooting of Venezuelan immigrant Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis on Wednesday by a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent sparked a raucous confrontation between law enforcement and protesters, ...

WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem denied in a televised interview on Sunday that her department had used pepper spray and similar tactics curtailed by a judicial order issued last ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. RETRANSMITTING TO REMOVE REFERENCE TO PROTESTER BEING DETAINED. HE WAS WALKING WITH HIS HANDS BEHIND HIS BACK Greg Bovino, the ...

CHICAGO — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital. Activists, residents ...