Immigration officials misused weapons hundreds of times during protests, report finds

By: Kate Morrissey

Outlets: Minnesota Reformer

Published: July 30, 2026

Words: 1,434

Last Updated: 4 days, 9 hours ago

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Reprinted with permission from Capital & Main.

Human rights investigators have documented hundreds of instances of misuse of crowd-control weapons at protests of immigration enforcement since President Donald Trump returned to office.

Department of Homeland Security employees and local law enforcement both committed violations of standards of use for crowd-control weapons, injuring protesters, according to a report from Physicians for Human Rights and the University of California, Berkeley’s Human Rights Center. …

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