Over the course of nearly a year, federal agents and local police deployed teargas, rubber bullets, pepper spray and other crowd-control munitions against immigration protesters at hundreds of sites across the United States — and a newly released investigation has put hard numbers to the toll. Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and the University of California, Berkeley's Human Rights Center (HRC) catalogued 412 confirmed instances of what they classify as weapon "misuse,
Report: Crowd control weapon misuse against ICE protesters caused blindings, brain injuries
A new report from Physicians for Human Rights and the University of California, Berkeley documents 412 verified incidents of crowd control weapon misuse against immigration protesters from June 2025 through May 2026, resulting in 203 injuries including blindings and traumatic brain injuries.
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