Overview

• Demonstrations began June 7 in downtown Los Angeles in response to federal immigration raids and quickly turned confrontational.
• The Los Angeles Police Department deployed sponge foam rounds, bean bag munitions, pepper balls, tear gas canisters and flash-bang devices to disperse crowds.
• Reporters covering the unrest, including Nine News correspondent Lauren Tomasi, and numerous protesters sustained serious wounds from blunt-force projectiles.
• Medical research links kinetic impact projectiles and chemical irritants to traumatic brain injuries, blindness, respiratory distress and, in some cases, permanent disability.
• Amnesty International and Physicians for Human Rights have called for binding global controls and clearer national protocols after evidence of munitions striking areas banned under LAPD policy.