What is far more common are nonlethal uses of force.
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Stewart also questioned why the cops didn't use nonlethal force.
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The armed forces also developed nonmilitary uses of nonlethal chemicals.
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The layout of Nonlethal Technologies' factory, according to former workers.
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Because accidents are inevitable, Swedish regulations aim to make them nonlethal.
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Mr. Fryer looked at two sources of data on nonlethal force.
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It also does not apply to defensive, nonlethal assistance, including training.
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MORE chose instead to send only nonlethal assistance to the country.
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But then Death Stranding gives you a "nonlethal" assault rifle, shotgun, etc.
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To ravens, lasers are annoying as hell, but more importantly, they're nonlethal.
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It is unclear if the two officers used any other nonlethal options.
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Instead, the U.S. provided "nonlethal" aid, including vehicles, radar, and body armor.
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A rubber bullet cartridge manufactured by Nonlethal Technologies, found in Manama, Bahrain.
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Then there are the turtles — these are nonlethal cancers that aren't going anywhere.
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Adding nonlethal equipment like pepper spray could help officers avoid more aggressive tactics.
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I just met with the guys who run nonlethal weapons for the military.
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In Iran and Saudi Arabia, many of the executions were for nonlethal crimes.
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Democrats lost on the Fairness Doctrine, and agreed to "nonlethal" aid to the Contras.
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But for years, sound has been used as a nonlethal, yet potentially harmful, weapon.
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Before that, the United States had limited its support to Ukraine to nonlethal aid.
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Nonlethal actions constituted the majority of management, with more than 21 million animals dispersed.
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The grenades are nonlethal but produce a blinding flash of light and loud sound.
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Canisters produced by Nonlethal Technologies have littered the streets of Hong Kong all summer.
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Last year, it participated in a debate about the use of nonlethal weapons in warfare.
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The problem is seen not just with deadly force but with nonlethal force as well.
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It added training on nonlethal force and removed obstacles to citizens filing complaints against officers.
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For nonlethal force, why were the estimates from police data and civilian data so different?
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If smoking has other, nonlethal health outcomes, Pence does not mention them in this piece.
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A riot gun, which uses compressed air to fire nonlethal projectiles, rested on his desk.
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The U.S. is the largest developer, operator and exporter of nonlethal weapons, according to Stratistics.
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The company they work for, Nonlethal Technologies, makes crowd-control products in Homer City, Pennsylvania.
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A weekend of nonlethal terrorism; the ceasefire in Syria is kaput; Chris Christie knew about Bridgegate.
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They used nonlethal weapons like tear gas to disperse protesters and the siege ended without bloodshed.
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This is significant given that Hong Kong police have used teargas produced by NonLethal Technologies Inc.
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A spent tear gas canister manufactured by Nonlethal Technologies, seen in Hong Kong on Aug. 24.
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This week, the Cleveland Police had a few nonlethal ones on hand at the Republican National Convention.
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A serious necessity rule would require all officers to carry nonlethal weapons and deploy them when feasible.
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Have we made any progress on the development of a nonlethal response to a perceived potential threat?
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The nonlethal experiment to reduce the deer population will cost the city $3.3 million over three years.
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" Mr. Kanders also wrote a letter defending his company as a manufacturer and supplier of "nonlethal products.
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Last year, North Dakota became the first state to legalize nonlethal, weaponized drones for its police officers.
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Police responded by trying to contain the crowds with tear gas, pepper spray, and other nonlethal weapons.
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He meant to use nonlethal force as he had in the past, the statement said, according to Heisten.
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Each found that nonlethal methods (like guard dogs, fences and warning flags) could be effective at deterring predators.
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Justice Department officials said they would rely on local police officials to voluntarily report nonlethal encounters as well.
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Professor Light said that, in the video, Mr. McGlockton appeared to be defending his family through nonlethal means.
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We are also removing items from our website resembling assault-style rifles, including nonlethal airsoft guns and toys.
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Through the new program, the FBI will not only obtain reports of deaths, but also nonlethal police encounters.
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There are also nonlethal methods that can change the dynamic of a bad situation but don't guarantee an outcome.
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The United States partly relaxed the ban two years ago, allowing the purchase of nonlethal equipment for maritime defense.
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Though the guns were designed to be nonlethal, many people shot with Tasers died, miring the company in controversy.
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Peace officers have arrest powers and may carry nonlethal weapons, but unlike police officers, they do not carry guns.
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Two suffered nonlethal injuries, but bullets struck Malala in the head and neck, leaving her in a critical condition.
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With unrest intensifying in places such as Hong Kong and Iraq, the nonlethal weapons industry is expected to surge.
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Nonlethal Technologies is owned by the Oberdick family, which has been in the tear gas industry for three generations.
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Nonlethal Technologies started off modestly in 22019 after it acquired a majority stake in a nearby tear gas company.
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Phalanxes of police officers used pepper spray, flash grenades and other nonlethal crowd-control tools to disperse the protesters.
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While CHAMP holds the promise of a nonlethal weapon against the North Koreans, skeptics say it has potentially dangerous drawbacks.
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For decades, military researchers tried to transform sound into a nonlethal weapon that could stop enemy soldiers in their tracks.
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At a previous visit, a young physician assistant had taken 10 skin biopsies, which showed slow growing, nonlethal cancerous lesions.
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Although the consequences of using herbicides like Agent Orange later became clear, they were always intended as nonlethal chemical weapons.
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" Walmart also announced it would remove items from its website "resembling assault-style rifles, including nonlethal airsoft guns and toys.
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Even the bright blue lettering of "Nonlethal Technologies" on the outside of the silver canisters is screen-printed by hand.
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Tear gas canisters manufactured by Nonlethal Technologies are lined up after police clashed with protesters in Hong Kong, Aug. 25.
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One found at Sunday's protests by BuzzFeed News, made by Nonlethal Technologies, a company in Pennsylvania, was produced in January 2019.
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Normally, Tasers can be used as a nonlethal alternative to deadly force in situations where deadly force would nonetheless be justified.
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Brazilian companies have also ramped up sales of "nonlethal" arms such as tear gas, pepper spray and concussion and smoke grenades.
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Experts on the region have also repeatedly said that Ukrainian soldiers are more appreciative and in greater need of nonlethal aid.
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Over half of men age 60 and older have small, indolent, nonlethal prostate cancers — many more than those who have harmful ones.
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So instead, the workers harassed the bear by firing nonlethal rubber slugs at it while utility workers simultaneously opened a nearby manhole.
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But here, it's uniquely easy for a person to obtain a gun, letting otherwise tense but nonlethal conflicts escalate into deadly violence.
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Batman had his gloved hands full: Damian was trained to be an assassin and did not care for the hero's nonlethal methods.
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By far the most notorious nonlethal crime committed by a Manson Family member didn't occur until the middle of the following decade.
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Stun guns were originally marketed as nonlethal, but they were relabeled "less lethal" after their use resulted in deaths in some cases.
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It's not only doable, it's inevitable: efficient, nonlethal door-to-door transportation for all — including, not insignificantly, people with impaired vision or mobility.
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He didn't have tear gas to clear the building because the United States signed a treaty to no longer use this nonlethal tool.
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It mostly involved nonlethal shooting and waiting around, which gave Morgan enough time to intervene and display impressive pistol skills for a pacifist.
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While these are nonlethal systems, the arrangement could potentially pave the way for lethal systems downstream to be used in intelligence-driven operations.
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Under normal, nonlethal circumstances, I typically solve the Downs from left to right, going from the top of the grid to the bottom.
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Nonlethal Technologies is run by a father–son duo whose family has been in the tear gas business for at least three generations.
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When Bob Mahnke got a job at Nonlethal Technologies, he spent a few weeks just working on loading the primers into the projectiles.
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Since mid-October, she and a team of doctors have received more than 211 patients with severe eye injuries resulting from nonlethal rounds.
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Supposedly nonlethal, they have caused numerous serious injuries, including skull fractures and eye loss, and have been associated with at least one fatality.
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Since 2001, Washington has relied on Pakistan's air and ground routes to transport lethal and nonlethal supplies to support its Afghan war efforts.
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An outside study of CBP use of force incidents from 2013 found that officers often put themselves in risky situations with no nonlethal alternatives.
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Prizes will be available for new technologies that prevent poaching, promote conservation, manage invasives, protect endangered species, and use nonlethal methods to control wildlife.
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The grenade launchers that were banned by Obama's 2015 order, for example, actually are used by local police to launch nonlethal projectiles, he said.
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More recently, OSHA cited Nonlethal Technologies again for mishandling hazardous chemicals in April 2018 and issued the company a fine of more than $6,000.
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The licenses themselves, however, are confidential, and it's unclear when they were issued for companies like Nonlethal Technologies that have shipped to Hong Kong.
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Former President Obama opted not to use that authority for fear of provoking Russia and worsening the conflict, and instead sent only nonlethal aid.
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The conversation has been reframed to be about persnickety details over what constitutes a dangerous, person-killing gun versus one with a somehow nonlethal use.
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If a necessity standard were rigorously pursued by courts and legislatures, we would develop better nonlethal weaponry, with better training and stronger punishments for misuse.
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Of course deescalation and prevention work much better to keep protests calm than instigating the crowd with aggressive arrests, chemical agents, and other nonlethal weapons.
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The sheriff said that deputies had been trained on the use of nonlethal force, including during encounters with people who may have a mental illness.
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What's more, in many of these cases, the IDF has failed to employ nonlethal methods to deal with demonstrators while ensuring the safety of journalists.
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At least 54 of those executed were foreigners charged with nonlethal drug-related offenses, including at least 10 people who allegedly smuggled narcotics in their stomachs.
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Seeking a nonlethal solution to the Paige problem, Elizabeth and Philip hatched the idea of having the Center find him a desirable job somewhere far away.
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With Alejandro Ocampo and other Salk researchers, Dr. Izpisua Belmonte has spent five years devising ways to deliver a nonlethal dose of Yamanaka factors to mice.
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As Nonlethal Technologies started aggressively increasing its operations, it was also relying on secondhand pellet presses and then repairing the equipment and replacing parts, said employees.
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It ignores the nonlethal means, such as tear gas, skunk water, and rubber-coated steel pellets, that Israel can and should exhaust to protect its border.
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"It turns out they don't get any lethal aid, but they do give a considerable sum of money and nonlethal aid," Mulvaney told Fox News on Sunday.
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We were outfitted with nonlethal and lethal weapons, including a Taser and handgun (unloaded, shooting a laser beam), taking turns reacting to characters on a giant screen.
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Mr. Fryer wonders if the divide between lethal force — where he did not find racial disparities — and nonlethal force — where he did — might be related to costs.
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Ranchers will experiment with nonlethal methods first only if they have the option, as a last resort, of killing a specific individual predator that repeatedly attacks livestock.
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In Montana, Wildlife Services has recently begun to collaborate with Ms. Upson's group and the Natural Resources Defense Council, both longtime critics, on nonlethal predator deterrence projects.
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It was a game about hitting people in the face with a metal rod as a "nonlethal" method of taking them out of commission—it was brutal.
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Mexico has reportedly called for an investigation into the use of what it described as nonlethal weapons, including tear gas, along its border with the United States.
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But officials are unconvincing when they argue that only live ammunition — rather than tear gas, water cannons and other nonlethal measures — can protect Israel from being overrun.
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A recent BuzzFeed News investigation found that Nonlethal Technologies relies on low-wage workers in Pennsylvania to produce the tear gas it sells in sometimes unsafe conditions.
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Rather than come together to defeat a common existential threat, Baghdad blocked licenses for nonlethal equipment and armored vehicles for Kurdish security forces, further feeding ingrained resentments.
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However, given the U.S.-Iran discord, the United States could potentially use the services of Indian companies as contractors to resupply nonlethal cargo through Chabahar into Afghanistan.
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Coinciding with the rise in executions is the number of people executed for nonlethal offenses that judges have wide discretion to rule on, particularly for drug-related crimes.
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A big part of that recovery stems from working with ranchers to find nonlethal ways to keep the wolves at bay, such as guard dogs and starter pistols.
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They had a split second to assess a dangerous situation and swiftly concluded that employing nonlethal tactics would be far too risky when dealing with that community's population.
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Images of the tear gas canisters have circulated on social media showing labels which reveal the weapons were manufactured in Homer City, Pennsylvania, by the company Nonlethal Technologies.
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Images of the tear gas canisters have circulated on social media, showing labels revealing that the weapons were manufactured in Homer City, Pennsylvania, by the company Nonlethal Technologies.
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" The report noted that the department's nonlethal encounters were also prone to excessive force, and added that the department suffered from "severely deficient training procedures and accountability systems.
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But the US has provided lethal and nonlethal aid to various rebel factions, and Russia provided weapons to Assad and began directly bombing rebels about a year ago.
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The Israeli military maintains it is only targeting those instigating violence, and has sought to use nonlethal deterrents — including drones that drop tear gas — to counter the protests.
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In March, Ms. Greene defended the decision, saying that it was a small contract worth "only" $9 million and that the technology would be used for nonlethal purposes.
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Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) — which would bar certain "commercial exports of certain nonlethal crowd control items" to the police in Hong Kong, and a resolution introduced by Rep.
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According to AlJazeera, Israel's border police denied targeting Amarneh at the protest near the city of Hebron and said it had used "nonlethal" means to disperse the crowd.
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HOMER CITY, Pennsylvania — There's no sign for Nonlethal Technologies when you drive past the pair of faded yellow gates on the side of the highway in western Pennsylvania.
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In the midst of your disastrous breakup, you also have some challenging but nonlethal health issues that you discuss — all while treating a patient who is actually dying.
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Tasers are marketed as nonlethal alternatives for law enforcement, but a new investigation shows that stun gun use in U.S. prisons has caused an alarming number of deaths.
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As national attention to fatal police shootings of black men and women has increased in recent years, Tasers were regularly discussed as a safer, nonlethal alternative for police officers.
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In nonlethal uses of force, we find racial differences even when we use police accounts of the interactions, so perhaps the "true" estimates of the differences are even larger.
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Even in nonlethal situations, who isn't driven crazy when blocked on the sidewalk by people ambling so s-l-o-w-l-y, with eyes glued to their screens?
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Some protesters were wearing an eye patch, a sign of solidarity with a woman who was shot in the face with "nonlethal" ammunition by Hong Kong police on Sunday.
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In addition, the military said it was experimenting with new forms of nonlethal crowd control, including a device that essentially fires a rifle-shot of sound at a target.
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Swallowing or breathing the substance can cause death, while nonlethal exposure can cause eye, nose, throat and skin irritation, among other maladies, according to the National Library of Medicine.
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For now, though, the atmosphere at the embassy remained relatively calm, and the Marines used only nonlethal weapons, such as tear gas, during demonstrations last week, the officer added.
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At its peak, when the United States had about 100,000 troops in Afghanistan, the alternative route helped with the transportation of about one third of nonlethal material with Russia's consent.
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The use of rubber bullets represented a turning point in the police response and was the first time the government acknowledged using the nonlethal rounds in Hong Kong in decades.
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They were considered armed and dangerous and police officers said they had to use a Taser and a nonlethal "bean bag" round on the husband to bring him into custody.
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Yet the U.S. has engaged in areas where isis does not figure directly, such as Aleppo, where its policy emphasizes the provision of "nonlethal aid" to civilians and opposition forces.
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This would entail using U.S. freight contractors to supply nonlethal cargoes such as fuel, food, construction material and equipment through commercial shipments via land routes in Central Asia, mainly Uzbekistan.
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Russia has now reopened the strait, but the clash was another demonstration of Moscow's ever-mounting appetite to use unorthodox, partially nonmilitary and sometimes nonlethal techniques to redraw the geopolitical map.
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The C.I.A. was mostly on the sidelines during this period, authorized by the White House under the Timber Sycamore training program to deliver nonlethal aid to the rebels but not weapons.
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The U.S. Navy has funded research on a nonlethal weapon that uses radio frequencies to "interrupt the normal process of human hearing and equilibrium" to cause instant and extreme motion sickness.
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One of the strangest things that's happened to Batman in recent cinematic adaptations is that he's developed a propensity to kill — a jump from the nonlethal Batman of the comic books.
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If one of those were armed with lethal or nonlethal force, then we have a different conversation, because there is no threat to bodily harm to a person in that instance.
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The nonlethal aid provided to Ukraine under former President Barack Obama included US personnel to train Ukrainian forces, Humvees, night-vision goggles, advanced radar, patrol boats, body armor, and humanitarian assistance.
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These observers take notes on illegal police procedures like the removal of identification tags, the use of expired tear gas, the misuse of nonlethal weapons and the disproportionate use of force.
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It is not clear whether those firearms and ammunition included nonlethal guns and rubber bullets or bean bag rounds like those that have been used against the protesters in recent days.
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He'd given Pasha a quick lesson in nonlethal wrist cutting — the veins, not the artery — and instructed him to make the cuts just before his parents were scheduled to get home.
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There was a brief, one-day shutdown before Reagan got his wish: the Democrats gave up on the Fairness Doctrine and agreed to send millions in nonlethal aid to the Contras.
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Derek Chollet, an assistant defense secretary during the Obama administration, recalled the debate about whether to provide lethal or nonlethal aid to the Ukrainian military after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.
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Gus Oberdick's son Jim later founded Nonlethal Technologies with his own son, Scott — both men also worked as chemists at Federal Laboratories, according to company sales materials and state business filings.
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The South China Morning Post reported that it&aposs not designed explicitly for killing like a gun that uses bullets , which is why the Chinese government classified the laser weapon as nonlethal.
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The photographer examines the long-term traumatic effects of pellet guns, a so-called nonlethal method of crowd control used by the police in Kashmir that has rendered protesters and passersby blind.
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There is plenty of science showing that wolves and other native wildlife have minimal impacts on livestock operations when the industry takes basic steps to keep their livestock safe using nonlethal methods.
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On the other hand, the shooter was contained and potentially could have been waited out or incapacitated — possibly even by a robot carrying a nonlethal weapon, such as a "flash bang" grenade.
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About 3 percent of black non-Hispanic students reported that they were victims of nonlethal violence at school, compared with 13 percent of Hispanic students and 1.4 percent of white non-Hispanic students.
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In his work "The Micropolitics of Noise," Lambros Pigounis, 39, a sound artist and composer, drew on military research into the use of sound as a nonlethal weapon to destabilize populations in conflict situations.
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But killing, or even nonlethal violence, isn't what Wachowski (or her finale co-writers, the novelists David Mitchell and Aleksandar Hemon — everything about this show is a goddamn trip) wants to leave viewers with.
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In reality, Hong Kong police have been the ones causing the most violence on the ground, shooting "nonlethal" rounds at point blank range, and firing tear gas regularly into crowds of non-violent protesters.
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The United States has already provided about $750 million in nonlethal arms to Ukraine, including body armor, night-vision equipment, radios and Humvees, as well as radars to pinpoint the location of enemy mortars.
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Israel has a right to defend its border, but in the face of unarmed civilians it could do so with nonlethal tactics common to law enforcement, such as the use of high-powered fire hoses.
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The government of President Petro O. Poroshenko has received Western support in its fight against rebel militias, including nonlethal assistance from the United States in the form of medical aid and communications equipment, including radios.
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That means letting some stories go uncovered, which at best can mean skipping stories about nonlethal fires in pursuit of the bigger fish — and at worst can mean eliminating the full-time City Hall reporter.
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As a result, in 2014 a district court in San Diego held that officers in a fatal shooting could be held liable because they didn't use a Taser or try other nonlethal alternatives before opening fire.
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The Pentagon announced Friday it would send $200 million in nonlethal military aid to Ukraine -- a move likely to anger Moscow just days after President Trump held a summit in Finland with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Israeli forces used lethal and nonlethal means on Monday in an attempt to disperse mass protests that took place at the security fence between Gaza and Israel, which included some Palestinians attempting to cross into Israel.
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India's military occupation of Kashmir has unfolded apace under this law, spurring massacres, disappearances, torture, rape, and the deliberate blinding of protesters with pump-action shotguns firing cartridges packed with hundreds of tiny "nonlethal" lead pellets.
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"Whether or not the officer could have used another tactic such as nonlethal force, or simply waiting, is not a factor we can even consider under current law," District Attorney George Gascón said in a statement.
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They followed up their letter with a bipartisan bill in the House of Representatives last month, which seeks to prohibit commercial exports of certain nonlethal crowd control items and defense articles and services to the city.
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"The internet of things, wireless power transfer, electronics in cars, cellular smart meters, nonlethal crowd control, there's an endless list of new rapidly emerging electromagnetic technologies that have to be tested" for possible interference, Olhoeft told Gizmodo.
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Olga Oliker, the director for Europe and Central Asia at the International Crisis Group, recently told Foreign Policy that nonlethal aid is actually considered more helpful than the Javelins, even as Ukrainian officials have celebrated their arrival.
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Support for rebels was "nonlethal" at first, then the C.I.A. backed some rebel groups, but ultimately America's goal was not to oust Mr. al-Assad but to put pressure on him to go to the negotiating table.
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The scheme, which will start as a pilot initiative, will also provide funding to police departments to help collect a wider range of policing actions, from traffic stops and searches to use of nonlethal force and shootings.
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Read: Video appears to show U.S. military drive-by shooting in Afghanistan Grey said the projectile was not a bullet but a nonlethal beanbag round, the kind typically used to pacify large grounds or individuals without killing them.
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One piece of good news is that the federal appellate court that covers California, the Ninth Circuit, has been edging toward the necessity rule, holding that courts must inquire whether nonlethal alternatives were available in excessive force cases.
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Israel's State Comptroller, an independent watchdog of the executive branch of government, has emphasized in reports following previous violence in 2003 and 2017 that the government has failed to develop and implement nonlethal means to deal with demonstrations.
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Developed originally as a nonlethal alternative to the gun, tasers were relentlessly marketed to police departments by Taser International, a hungry start-up that stirred demand through celebrity cop endorsements and dramatic demonstrations of burly volunteers being dropped.
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And protesters and residents' complaints over police use of tear gas in subway stations and nonlethal force that has nevertheless left demonstrators injured (one woman's eye was ruptured last Sunday) have only increased tensions between civilians and officers.
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Two receptionists, a clinic escort, an off-duty police officer and others were also killed during acts of anti-abortion violence during that time, and there were many hundreds of nonlethal violent incidents, including bombings and attempted assassinations.
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"That's where SIGINT (signals intelligence) or COMINT (communications intelligence) comes into collaboration with HUMINT (human intelligence)," said Geers, who described the present moment as the "golden age of espionage," as cyberwarfare remains nonlethal, unattributable, and almost completely unpunished.
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While there could be some surprising findings, officers said the accidents — and two nonlethal mishaps earlier this year — were almost certainly influenced by systemic problems that persist despite repeated alarms from congressional watchdogs and the Navy's own experts.
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ATLANTA (Reuters) - The family of a Georgia Institute of Technology student shot and killed by police in Atlanta over the weekend questioned on Monday why campus officers did not try to disarm the computer engineering major with nonlethal force.
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L. Chris Stewart, a lawyer for the Schultz family, criticized the university for not providing officers with more nonlethal tools and said the killing would not have happened if campus police officers were properly trained to handle mental illness.
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CS is not in fact a gas — at Nonlethal Technologies, the chemical base is mixed with hot water until it forms a white crystal, which is laid out on tables in one of the shipping containers until it dries.
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The controversy over the use of rubber bullet launchers, nonlethal weapons that have caused dozens of facial injuries, forced police forces to reduce their use, Mr. Philippe said, hinting that the police would be allowed to adopt tougher measures.
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"While generals and politicians in Kyiv played up the Javelins, in my own experience, soldiers in the field talked more about getting insufficient quantities of the nonlethal aid that they really needed — secure communications, armored vehicles, counterbattery radars," Oliker said.
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Reporters Without Borders said it had also documented at least five murder attempts against journalists that were planned or executed by members of criminal organizations, along with numerous threats or nonlethal attacks on journalists that were linked to organized crime.
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Mr. Poroshenko sought to buttress Ukraine's case by saying that it had responsibly used the nonlethal systems it had already received from the United States, and asserting that the anti-tank weapon would be used to deter further Russian aggression.
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Fearing that the provision of defensive weapons might tempt President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to raise the stakes, the Obama administration limited American aid to "nonlethal" items, including body armor, night-vision goggles, first aid kits and engineering equipment.
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At the same time, parents said their exposure to the police tactics — some have seen police beatings or been hit with nonlethal projectiles themselves in the mayhem — had made them more sympathetic to their children's choices to defy and resist.
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Yet a handful of countries have been especially eager to mete out capital punishment, including against those convicted of nonlethal crimes, while some countries that had discontinued capital punishment have resumed the practice, especially in what they consider to be terrorism cases.
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But Mr. Obama drew only tepid applause when he cautioned that the United States must "never celebrate war itself" and urged the soon-to-be second lieutenants to embrace the use of diplomacy and other nonlethal tools to resolve disputes around the world.
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At least some of the crowd-control equipment currently in the hands of the Hong Kong Police Force has come from US companies that have obtained export licenses from the Department of Commerce, including Nonlethal Technologies, a small company based in western Pennsylvania.
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Mario Rozas, the director general of the Chilean police, announced late Tuesday that Chile would suspend the use of nonlethal pellets for crowd control and allow police to fire them only in circumstances of "extreme danger," the same standard used for live rounds.
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Devices like laser-guided bombs and nonlethal weapons have the potential to reduce civilian…Read more ReadThis research may become crucial not just for improving trust between humans and self-driving cars, but any kind of autonomous machine—including those with even greater responsibilities.
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Donald Trump unveils foreign policy advisers But Ukraine is not a member of NATO, and Washington is not providing arms to the government as it is fighting pro-Moscow rebels, though has provided nonlethal aid and has helped support international bailouts of the Ukrainian economy.
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The game ended in a brutal 112-97 loss, but the crowd seemed neither disappointed nor resigned; these were the Draymond faithful, and they were pre-amped for Thursday, when they predicted Green would return from suspension wielding the nonlethal basketball equivalent of a machete.
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The second study, by an economics professor at Harvard, Roland G. Fryer Jr., found that blacks were 50 percent more likely to be subjected to nonlethal uses of force by the police, like being handcuffed, pushed to the ground or hit with pepper spray.
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In a seven-year case study published last year, researchers found that sheepherders in Idaho who used a strategic array of nonlethal deterrents — from flagged fences to dogs to increased human presence — to protect sheep from wolves on public lands experienced significantly lower wolf depredations.
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Conway said that while projectiles and rocks "were thrown at our brave men and women at the border," border patrol officers "used nonlethal force in response because they have a right to defend themselves, to make sure others who are there are not harmed."
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Wary of signaling a deeper American commitment to the war effort in Ukraine, which would most likely be viewed as a hostile move by Russia, the administration, after extended debate, decided it would send only "nonlethal" aid — clothes, food, medicine — to the Ukrainian military.
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Janssen is working on a vaccine, but on Tuesday said it was also working to determine whether previously tested medicines can be used to help patients survive a coronavirus infection and reduce the severity of disease from the virus, called COVID-19, in nonlethal cases.
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Since Washington partly lifted the embargo in 2014, allowing the purchase of nonlethal equipment for maritime defense, Vietnam has not acquired any American equipment, not even coastal radar systems for its Coast Guard, said Carl Thayer, a defense analyst in Canberra, Australia, who specializes in Vietnam.
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The eye injuries have become such a focus of public anger that last week, in a conciliatory gesture, India's home minister, Rajnath Singh, promised that the pellet guns, as they are known here, would be replaced by another type of nonlethal weapon in the coming days.
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Mexico's foreign ministry said Monday it had presented a diplomatic note to the United States Embassy asking for an "exhaustive investigation" into the use of nonlethal weapons at the border on Sunday, where at least two dozen tear gas canisters released by American agents landed in Mexico.
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Israeli officials, speaking on the condition they not be publicly identified, said Israeli Defense Forces had strongly stuck to their own rules of engagement, permitting live ammunition only in situations that posed an imminent threat from an individual or group after all nonlethal possibilities had been exhausted.
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Indeed, Lyles had a history with the law, which raises questions about the responses to mental illness and how they intersect with race: If officers knew she had a history of mental instability, why not be en route with a trained professional and armed with nonlethal weapons?
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"If there's a sense in some of these rural communities that there's no recourse for the chronic, ongoing killing of their cows or sheep killed by wolves, then their willingness to do any kind of collaborative, positive work with the agency and to use nonlethal tools evaporates," Cantrell said.
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Nonlethal stun grenades are tossed into the room to startle and disorient two suspected drug dealers who are quickly taken into custody Lt. Brian O'Keefe, a spokesman for Manchester Police, says the department is conducting more quick and aggressive operations such as these that target low-level street dealers.
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The Town's Deer and Tick Committee has considered nonlethal measures, such as relocation and birth control, but the only practical way to deal with overpopulation, which threatens the health and safety of humans as well as the health of the herd, has been to encourage more people to hunt.
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The shooting comes at a volatile time for the Chicago Police Department, which has been under years of intense scrutiny for its strained relationship with black and Latinx neighborhoods, fueled by repeated incidents of both lethal and nonlethal police violence including several high-profile police shootings of black men and women.
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The officers, he said, tried to make a lawful arrest, tried Tasering and other nonlethal techniques to subdue Sterling when he didn't comply with commands, and made "well-founded and reasonable" attempts to control Sterling's hands until the moment one officer claims he saw Sterling try to reach a gun.
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The House, which just returned from a two-week break on Tuesday, also passed a bill "to prohibit commercial exports of certain nonlethal crowd control items and defense articles and services" to the Hong Kong police, as well as a related resolution condemning China's interference in Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests.
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The shooting of Harith Augustus comes at a volatile time for the Chicago Police Department, which has been under years of intense scrutiny for its strained relationship with black neighborhoods, fueled by repeated incidents of both lethal and nonlethal police violence including several high-profile police shootings of black men and women.
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Still, the strategy of an uncompromising police response to the Yellow Vests — heavy use of tear gas, nonlethal rubber bullets and water cannons — appears to have helped reduce the severe urban vandalism of the protests' early days, when the streets of Paris's luxury districts were littered with burning cars and smashed store windows.
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A slide is displayed during witness testimony at a hearing regarding US Airways Flight 1549 on June 13, 2009, at a National Transportation Safety Board hearing in Washington, DC. A wildlife management officer fires a nonlethal pyrotechnic round to disperse birds from the runways and surrounding areas at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, on Jan.
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California Assembly Bill 931 would authorize officers to use deadly force "only when it is necessary to prevent imminent and serious bodily injury or death -- that is, if, given the totality of the circumstances, there was no reasonable alternative to using deadly force, including warnings, verbal persuasion, or other nonlethal methods of resolution or de-escalation," according to Weber.
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"No matter the level of violence in front of you, you don't have to go into this hunting, aggressive mode that the French use," said Stuart Maslen, an honorary professor of law at the University of Pretoria in South Africa and the main author of a forthcoming United Nations report on the use of nonlethal weapons.
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The game seems to emphasize stealth — Ubisoft says half of the weapons in-game are nonlethal — and there are, of course, plenty of new gadgets to play around with, like nimble spider-bots and a cloaking system that hides you from the pervasive AR. Legion is being helmed by Ubisoft's Toronto studio, it also marks a return of sorts for Hocking.
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The latter would halt US exports of nonlethal crowd control equipment, such as rubber bullets and tear gas, to the Hong Kong police until an independent investigation into human rights concerns is completed, those concerns are adequately addressed by the Hong Kong government and the White House determines that Hong Kong law enforcement has not engaged in human rights violations for a year.
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Devices like laser-guided bombs and nonlethal weapons have the potential to reduce civilian…Read more ReadLAWS will be imbued with safety mechanisms and "moral" programming, but as Wendell Wallach from Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics told to Gizmodo, they'll be difficult to test, will still have software bugs, and will act unpredictably at times, even displaying unanticipated behavior.
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In one stretch, it zooms unpredictably from the diarrhea chapter to the maggot chapter to chapters on the government's continuing development of nonlethal stink bombs designed to disperse violent mobs (Roach visits a defense contractor that created a repugnant, effective mixture called Stench Soup); the Navy's World War II-era efforts to develop shark repellent for the Pacific theater; and the methods by which sailors train for submarine escapes.
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The legislation would authorize officers to use deadly force "only when it is necessary to prevent imminent and serious bodily injury or death -- that is, if, given the totality of the circumstances, there was no reasonable alternative to using deadly force, including warnings, verbal persuasion, or other nonlethal methods of resolution or de-escalation," according to Democratic Assemblywoman Shirley Weber of San Diego, a co-author of the measure.
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