Crime & Safety
Alameda County Bans Some Crowd-Control Weapons
Alameda County has agreed to ban rubber bullets, bean bags and less-lethal munitions for crowd control as part of a settlement.
September 2, 2022
Alameda County has agreed to ban rubber bullets, bean bags and less-lethal munitions for crowd control as part of a settlement after sheriff's deputies fired rubber bullets and injured two people protesting police brutality in 2020, the plaintiff's lawyer said Thursday.
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Oakland police officers and Alameda County sheriff's deputies used tear gas to disperse demonstrators in Oakland during a June 1, 2020, protest and deputies started indiscriminately firing rubber bullets at the crowd, shooting Tosh Sears in the hip and Kierra Brown in the calf, according to a federal lawsuit against Alameda County and the city of Oakland.
Sears and Brown along with thousands of others took to the streets to protest police brutality and racial injustice after a white Minneapolis officer killed George Floyd, a Black man.
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