Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler on Thursday ordered the Police Bureau to halt the use of CS gas as a crowd control tool amid ongoing protests that have routinely gotten out of hand. The directive comes ...

It's been more than one hundred days since Portlanders first asked Mayor Ted Wheeler to stop his police officers from coating crowds of protesters in CS gas—a commonly used tear gas. Now, after ...

As protests continued Friday, some demonstrators we spoke to said getting their message out while being faced with police officers in riot gear can be very intimidating. “We really just want unity, we ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Police are considering whether to use CS gas, water canon or taser stun guns in future to deal with riots on the scale of last summer's disorder, a report into the trouble published ...

For many decades governments around the world, especially in the USA, have fired tens of thousands of rounds of CS gas at their own people in an attempt to control “civil unrest”. The media falsely ...

Timur Ender lives with his wife, Althea, and two young children in East Portland, not far Ventura Park and the Portland Police Bureau’s East Precinct. He cares deeply about justice and equality in ...

The city of Portland recently sent the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) information they requested about the chemicals contained in the crowd control agents that have been sprayed on ...

Portland, Ore. Sept. 10, 2020 5:32 p.m. Updated: Sept. 11, 2020 9:40 p.m. After more than 100 days of demonstrations for racial justice, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has banned the city’s police force ...