ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Police officers in Rochester, New York, handcuffed and pepper-sprayed a 9-year-old girl while responding to what a police official called a report of "family trouble" in an incident sharply criticized by city officials. Two body camera ...

Police in the Australian city of Sydney deploy pepper spray and scuffle with protesters as a march against a visit by President Isaac Herzog turned violent, an AFP journalist says. Police hit protesters and members of the media, including AFP, with pepper spray as a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel rally attempted to leave a designated area.

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“These are chemical weapons that are harmful to the human body and harmful to particularly vulnerable folks, like children,” says Asha Hassan, an epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. “We know that tear gas causes tears, but it also causes other things that are a lot more severe,” she says — even death.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino told Fox News on Saturday that a federal judge’s order for agents to stop using pepper spray and tear gas against peaceful protesters will not stop ...

Palo Alto police have arrested a woman who allegedly pepper sprayed a family with four children during road rage incident on Embarcadero Road on Saturday afternoon. The incident occurred shortly before 5:45 p.m. near the intersection of Embarcadero and ...