Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An LAPD officer holds a less-lethal launcher as fellow officers take a protester into custody during recent demonstrations in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Los Angeles police officer aims his "less-lethal" weapon at a demonstrator in June 2020. (Jae C. Hong / Associated Press) Los ...

LAPD officers were caught in a bizarre shootout at an apartment when a man emerged from his unit and began shooting with a projectile launcher that fired .50 caliber rubber balls. Recently released ...

Chinese scientists have disclosed a projectile launcher for use in space. This launcher may be used as a weapon and is intended to remove hazardous trash from Earth's orbit. The small and covert ...

Madison City Council members voted on a civilian oversight committee and equipment funding for the Madison Police Department during Tuesday’s Common Council meeting. The Council blocked $50,000 in ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — The Los Angeles Police Department will have to restrict its use of less-lethal projectile launchers against crowds at demonstrations, a federal judge ruled Monday. In the order, ...

A day after a federal judge issued an order restricting the LAPD's use of "less lethal" projectile launchers against crowds of protesters, Chief Michel Moore Tuesday announced two directives ...

Los Angeles police officers fired 40-millimeter projectiles intended to stop people through “pain compliance” at least 133 times last year — including nine cases where civilians were also shot at with ...

Police call it a “40-millimeter Less-Lethal Launcher,” but to those who have found themselves on the business end of the weapon during recent protests, the wounds feel deadly serious. And unjustified.