A Los Angeles County probation officer has been placed on administrative leave pending an internal affairs investigation for carrying and using pepper spray during a fight involving 14 girls at a ...

“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 ...

Several students were medically treated on Wednesday after pepper spray was accidentally released at a Panorama school.

More than two dozen students at Panorama High School were being assessed after the accidental release of pepper spray inside ...

Pepper spray usage and violence skyrocketed at Los Angeles County’s second largest juvenile facility last year after dozens ...

San Diego County supervisors voted Tuesday to explore phasing out pepper spray in local juvenile detention facilities, citing concerns that probation officers use the chemical agent instead of trying ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KPHO/Gray News) - Arizona’s newest congressional representative says she was pepper-sprayed by immigration agents during raids and protests in the state on Friday. Rep. Adelita Grijalva ...