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  2. Riot control - Wikipedia

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    Riot control agents (sometimes called RCAs) are non-lethal lachrymatory agents used for riot control. Most commonly used riot control agents are pepper spray and various kinds of tear gas. These chemicals enable to disperse a protesting or rioting crowd, or to clear a building. [ 11 ]

  3. Crowd control - Wikipedia

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    Kyoto Prefectural Riot Police Unit officers on duty during the Gion Matsuri 2008 festival. Crowd control is a public security practice in which large crowds are managed in order to prevent the outbreak of crowd crushes, affray, fights involving drunk and disorderly people or riots. Crowd crushes in particular can cause many hundreds of ...

  4. Baton (law enforcement) - Wikipedia

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    Longer truncheons are called "riot batons" because of their use in riot control. Truncheons may have developed as a marriage between the club or military mace and the staff of office/sceptre. Straight batons of rubber have a softer impact. Some of the kinetic energy bends and compresses the rubber and bounces off when the object is struck.

  5. Category:Riot control weapons - Wikipedia

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  6. Supreme Court rules for Jan. 6 rioter challenging obstruction ...

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    The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a former police officer who is seeking to throw out an obstruction charge for joining the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, in a ruling that could benefit former ...

  7. Riot gun - Wikipedia

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    A Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer with a bean bag shotgun. In current usage, a riot gun or less-lethal launcher is a type of firearm used to fire "non-lethal" or "less-lethal" ammunition for the purpose of suppressing riots or apprehending suspects with minimal harm or risk. [1]

  8. Plastic bullet - Wikipedia

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    Plastic bullet (target shooting): a blunt, lightweight handgun bullet intended for short-range target practice, not intended for use as a weapon. [10] Both types of plastic bullet intended for riot control have caused deaths. [11] [12] Plastic bullets are generally used for riot control. Some plastic bullets are intended to be skip fired ...

  9. Riot - Wikipedia

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    Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation (Oxford UP, 2003) Bruns, Roger. Zoot Suit Riots (ABC-CLIO 2014), Hispanics in Los Angeles in 1940s. Chicago Commission on Race Relations. The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot (1922) on Chicago race riot of 1919; Fine, Sidney.