According to APD’s use of force policy, pepper spray is used to “disperse violent crowds or riots with (prior) supervisor ...

Seattle police acknowledged pepper spray was used in a violent confrontation with protesters near the federal building in ...

An inmate who took a blast of pepper spray to the face and then spit on a jail deputy was eligible for a harsher sentence ...

Ministers are facing legal action over their decision to allow pepper spray to be used against children as young as 15 in youth offenders’ institutions. The Government last month said it has no ...

At least four BART riders were injured when they were exposed to pepper spray at San Francisco's Powell Street station. One rider told KTVU he saw orange clouds of chemicals that burned his eyes ...

Washington Capitals defenseman Alex Alexeyev was arrested Saturday, hit with pepper spray and charged with public intoxication, according to Arlington County police. In an incident that occurred ...

When officers arrived at the scene, Alexeyev allegedly assaulted the other man, prompting the police to use pepper spray on the Capitals defenseman. "Officers subsequently observed the male ...

A court has heard two police officers pepper-spray and taser a 92-year-old amputee who died three weeks later in hospital. PC Stephen Smith and PC Rachel Comotto are accused of assaulting Donald ...

A 93-year-old disabled man was sprayed in the face with synthetic pepper spray before being shot by a Taser and hit with a baton, by police officers responding to a call at his care home, a court has ...

Pava spray is a synthetic-made pepper spray that many forces in the UK now use in place of the traditional gas spray. Pc Stephen Smith, 51, and Pc Rachel Comotto, 36, are on trial at Southwark ...