Documents and Incidents Tagged "Less-Lethal Weapons"
Documents
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- Department
- Salem Police
- Tags
- Use of Force Policy | Policy | Less-Lethal Weapons | Salem Police | FOIA (2022) | SWAT |
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- Department
- Richmond Police Department
- Tags
- Richmond Police | Policy | Redactions | Less-Lethal Weapons | FOIA (2022) | Gas |
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- Department
- Virginia Beach Police
- Description
- "Internal Affairs will generate a Firearms Discharge Review action and ensure the Blue Team use of Force Report is completed. When appropriate a written summary of the response to the Public Safety Statement should be completed by the on-scene supervisor and submitted by the end of the shift. Internal Affairs will review each report received from commands for content, clarity, and compliance to this General Order. Commands will be responsible for the adjudication of all UOF cases but must consider recommendations made by the UOF Board as outlined below. Once the case is adjudicated by the proper authority, Internal Affairs will finalize the report and capture the data in the IAPro Data Base. A Use of Force Board will be convened to make recommendations to the Police Chief for any Use of Force that meets... criteria..."
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- Department
- Virginia Beach Police
- Description
- "The Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team is under the command and responsibility of Special Operations. All SWAT Team members shall have specialized training in areas that include, less-lethal weapon systems, high risk building searches, tactical breaching, crowd management, rapid deployment, sniper/counter-sniper operations, high-risk vehicle take-downs, bus and airplane interdiction, specialized weapon systems, hostage rescue and barricaded suspects. The SWAT team will conduct operational training exercises at least monthly for the purpose of maintaining skills necessary to respond to tactically demanding incidents."
- Tags
- Policy | Less-Lethal Weapons | Virginia Beach Police | SWAT | Tactical | Search Warrants | Special Ops |
Incidents
Incident VSPN-v-City-of-Richmond-et-al |
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| Date | Jun 26, 2020 |
| Time | 12:00 PM |
| Report # | VSPN-v-City-of-Richmond-et-al |
| Department | Richmond Police Department |
| Officers | Gary T. Settle |
| Description | A lawsuit was filed against the Richmond Police then-Chief and the Virginia State Police Superintendent for its treatment of racial justice protesters during the summer of 2020. |
| Address | Richmond, VA |
| Tags | Richmond Police | Lawsuit | Settlement | Virginia State Police | Less-Lethal Weapons | Virginia Eastern District Court | Police Protest Violence | Marcus-David Peters Circle | Virginia Student Power Network | Mayor Levar Stoney | |
Incident Misc-Gas-Attacks-at-MDPC |
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| Date | Jun 26, 2020 |
| Time | 08:30 PM |
| Report # | Misc-Gas-Attacks-at-MDPC |
| Department | Richmond Police Department |
| Description | |
| Address |
1700 Monument Avenue
near North Allen Avenue
Richmond, VA |
| Tags | Richmond Police | Virginia State Police | Less-Lethal Weapons | Police Protest Violence | Video | Marcus-David Peters Circle | Mayor Levar Stoney | |
Incident Weakley-v-City-of-Richmond-et-al |
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| Date | Jun 21, 2022 |
| Report # | Weakley-v-City-of-Richmond-et-al |
| Department | Richmond Police Department |
| Officers | Benjamin James Frazer , Anthony Joseph Bradt Jr |
| Description | |
| Address | Richmond, VA |
| Tags | Richmond Police | Lawsuit | Settlement | Virginia State Police | Less-Lethal Weapons | Virginia Eastern District Court | Police Protest Violence | Benjamin Frazer | Anthony Bradt | |
Incident VSP-Shoots-Frank-Hunt-Eye |
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| Date | Jun 26, 2020 |
| Report # | VSP-Shoots-Frank-Hunt-Eye |
| Department | Richmond Police Department |
| Description | Frank Hunt was shot in the eye at a protest. He was partially blinded for months, but continued to attend the 2020 protests. |
| Address | Richmond, VA |
| Tags | Virginia State Police | Less-Lethal Weapons | Police Protest Violence | |
Incident Police-Riot-7-25 |
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| Date | Jul 25, 2020 |
| Time | 09:20 PM |
| Report # | Police-Riot-7-25 |
| Department | Richmond Police Department |
| Description | |
| Address |
200 West Grace Street
Richmond, VA |
| Tags | Richmond Police | Less-Lethal Weapons | Police Protest Violence | Chief Gerald Smith | Video | Mayor Levar Stoney | |
Incident MDPC-Raid-6-22 |
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| Date | Jun 22, 2020 |
| Time | 03:00 AM |
| Report # | MDPC-Raid-6-22 |
| Department | Richmond Police Department |
| Description | Police stormed Marcus David-Peters Circle where less than 30 people lay relaxing playing music, talking among one another, or playing board games. They unleashed tear gas, upended free food distribution stations, confiscated books from the little free library, and stole the trash cans donated to the site. |
| Address |
1700 Monument Avenue
near N. Allen Avenue
Richmond, VA |
| Tags | Richmond Police | Less-Lethal Weapons | Police Protest Violence | Marcus-David Peters Circle | Mayor Levar Stoney | |
Incident MDPC-Raid-6-24 |
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| Date | Jun 24, 2020 |
| Time | 09:15 PM |
| Report # | MDPC-Raid-6-24 |
| Department | Richmond Police Department |
| Description | Richmond Police, Virginia State Police, and the National Guard wreak havoc and terror. |
| Address |
1700 Monument Avenue
near North Allen Avenue
Richmond, VA |
| Tags | Virginia State Police | Less-Lethal Weapons | Police Protest Violence | Video | Marcus-David Peters Circle | National Guard | Mayor Levar Stoney | |
Incident VCU-Police-Assault-Christopher-Watkins |
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| Date | Jan 01, 2022 |
| Time | 12:00 PM |
| Report # | VCU-Police-Assault-Christopher-Watkins |
| Department | Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Police |
| Description | A 2022 lawsuit was filed alleging unnamed VCU Police officers assaulted and pepper sprayed a man while he stood outside the hospital waiting for his ride. |
| Address |
E. Marshall Street
Richmond, VA |
| Tags | College & University | Lawsuit | Less-Lethal Weapons | VCU Police | |