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Broken bones. Eye trauma. Brain injuries. How America’s sketchy “less-lethal” weapons industry exports its insidious brand of…
Broken bones. Eye trauma. Brain injuries. How America’s sketchy “less-lethal” weapons industry exports its insidious brand of…
U.S NewsMeet the American cops who trained Ukrainian police, now on the front lines:https://dayton247now.com/news/videos/america…
By Rohini Haar and Brian…
(Editor’s note: This is a follow-up to last year’s joint investigation by KHN and USA Today finding that police in several…
BMJ Open marks a decade of influential open access…
There’s a gap in Scott Olsen’s memory for the night of Oct. 25, 2011. The Iraq War vet remembers leaving his tech job in the…
Warning: Graphic images and video below. Megan Matthews thought she was dying. “I thought my head was blown off,” said Matthews…
A woman in California is suing the Los Angeles police department for $10 million after she was shot in the head by a foam…
Common crowd-dispersal methods used on protesters across the country have caused brain damage and other disabilities, prompting…
Police officers fire rubber bullets May 29 during a Los Angeles protest over the death of George Floyd.; Credit: Ringo H.W.
Protests and demonstrations, like those erupting after the death of George Floyd, a black man who was killed when a white…
Rubber bullets fired on protesters can kill. So why are we using them—and can they be improved? As protests have taken over the…
A 20-year-old black protester with a broken skull and brain damage, a 59-year-old grandmother in a medically induced coma, and…
In the George Floyd protests, eager police abuse of “less lethal” weapons is causing unconscionable escalation and injury.
In cities across the country, police departments have attempted to quell unrest spurred by the death of George Floyd by firing…
Five decades of evidence show that rubber bullets can maim, blind and even kill people, but they still are being used widely by…
US police have used rubber bullets against civilian protesters on a massive scale the past week. These projectiles actually…
Bonjour Le Pr Laurent Thines est neurochirurgien au CHU de Besançon. Il vient de lancer une pétition pour un moratoire sur l’util…
December saw four new papers enter into BMJ Open’s top 10 most read articles. In first place is a systematic review of deaths…
‘Non-lethal’ bullets are often inaccurate and have potential to cause death, disability and serious injury, researchers…
Given their inherent inaccuracy, they shouldn’t be used for this purpose, say…