$11.8M Verdict Against LAPD Signals Breaking Point for "Less-Lethal" Crowd-Control Tactics

In a civil rights case that signals a reckoning over police crowd-control tactics, a federal jury has awarded $11.8 million to a Dodgers fan permanently blinded in one eye by LAPD projectiles. The outcome delivers a sharp rebuke of so-called "less-lethal" crowd-control tactics, according...