UCLA police, who were called on to handle some of the nation’s largest campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war last spring, are asking for approval to double their stockpile of pepper balls and sponge rounds, obtain eight more projectile launchers and purchase three new drones. “All of the campus’s requests are for non-lethal alternatives to standard-issue firearms, enabling officers to …
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Ten people were injured by gunfire and two in the following stampede after a man opened fire on Saturday inside a shopping mall in Columbia, South Carolina. “The shooting at the Columbiana Centre mall was not believed to have been a random act of violence but rather stemmed from some kind of conflict among a group of armed individuals who …
