NEW YORK -- In law enforcement, they're referred to as "nonlethal" tools for dealing with demonstrations that turn unruly: rubber bullets, pepper spray, batons, flash-bangs.

By a vote of 7-1, the Little Rock Board of Directors approved the purchase of riot gear for the Little Rock Police Department on May 19. With images of protests in Ferguson, Missouri, and ...

The Little Rock Police Department plans to spend $340,380 on enough riot gear to outfit about 500 of the department’s 550 officers with helmets, gas masks and shields.

Dozens of police clad in riot gear moved in on the pro-Palestinian protester encampment at California State University, Los Angeles on Monday.

An Arkansas man who beat a police officer with a flagpole attached to an American flag during the US Capitol riot was sentenced to more than 4 years in prison.

LOS ANGELES, June 6 (Reuters) - Helmeted police in riot gear turned out on Friday evening in a tense confrontation with protesters in downtown Los Angeles, after a day of federal immigration raids ...