SDPD’s use of pepper spray has surged in the Gaslamp Quarter in recent years

Pepper spray use by SDPD officers in the Gaslamp Quarter has skyrocketed in recent years, with 361 deployments in 2025 up ...

Agents use pepper spray, pepper balls at Delaney Hall. How they work

Protests against treatment of people detained at Delaney Hall turned physical on Memorial Day when officers used pepper spray ...
WIBW

‘You don’t mace kids’: Police use pepper spray on high school football players during end-of-game handshake

ST. LOUIS (KSDK) – Football players from a Missouri high school were pepper sprayed by police at the end of a game against a school in Ohio. Video captured police in Massillon, Ohio, using pepper ...

Police use pepper spray to arrest 40-year-old stabbing suspect

A 40-year-old man was arrested after stabbing another man in the chin Saturday. Mark Running, 40, of Sioux Falls, was ...

I had to use pepper spray against my dad: What pushed this 27-year-old to that point is heartbreaking

A 27-year-old man, Suthirtha, shared a harrowing account of using pepper spray against his abusive father after years of ...
The Atlantic

Pepper Spray Officer Was Once Honored for Not Using Pepper Spray

The patient was wielding a pair of surgical scissors at other officers when he rushed into the fray to stop the incident. "I hit her hard," the release quoted Pike as saying. "For me, it was just a ...