On the night of December 4th, 2014, demonstrators filled the streets in protest of the grand jury's failure to indict Daniel Pantaleo for killing Eric Garner. Anika Edrei, Shay Horse, James Craven, ...

The City has agreed to pay $748,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by Black Lives Matter protesters who said the NYPD illegally targeted demonstrators with Long Range Acoustic Devices [LRAD] in 2014.

LRAD Corp., which makes long-range hailing devices for the military, said Thursday that it plans to spin off a portion of its business into a new publicly traded company. The San Diego company will ...

Long Range Acoustical Devices have been used by big-city departments including New York, Pittsburgh and Los Angeles to bark out orders to protesters and break up demonstrations. Sound has long been ...

The NYPD must stop using deafening sound cannons to break up street demonstrations following a legal settlement reached Monday with five Black Lives Matter protesters. The city also must pay $748,000 ...

Sound has long been used as a weapon. The Germans put sirens on Stuka dive bombers in World War II to amplify the terror to unlucky souls below. Jamaican maroons ...

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On Wednesday afternoon, a peaceful demonstration in Ferguson, Missouri, about Michael Brown’s killing turned into a standoff between protesters and law enforcement, and eventually devolved into chaos.

I guess military tech always finds its way home. Pittsburgh city officials believe their police department’s use of a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) at last week’s G20 protests was “the first time ...

The Phoenix Police Department wants to purchase two powerful loudspeakers that have been used by some law enforcement agencies to force protesters to disperse. The model of Long Range Acoustic Devices ...

I guess military tech always finds its way home. Pittsburgh city officials believe their police department’s use of a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) at last week’s G20 protests was “the first time ...

HILO Gov. David Ige said Wednesday concerns expressed in a Tuesday letter by the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii that a long-range acoustic device will be used as a sound cannon against ...