Officers attempted to subdue him unsuccessfully with a stun gun, and when that did not work, an officer shot him multiple times with a bean-bag rifle. “This appeared to have no effect on Mr ...

The weapon was later determined to be a pellet gun. No officers were hurt ... After the suspect fired at police, officers used bean bag projectiles to stop the suspect. Because of this, police ...

During the encounter, one deputy asked for a bean bag gun before the shooting occurred. Gaines said a non-lethal weapon would have been better, but the situation escalated when Scates possessed a ...

A Washington, D.C. man was sentenced to 7 years in prison after police spotted him in an Instagram livestream with a machine gun, the Justice Department announced. A U.S. District Court judge ...

to deter the subject from reaching the long gun,” McKenzie said. Later in the conference, he added that the low-lethal efforts like bean bag rounds were “ineffective.” When a reporter asked ...