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‘Non-lethal’ weapons fire pepper powder balls or jets of liquid that affect eyes, nose and throat; police experts also testing stun guns
That's another time they were starting to assault our agents. we were able to hold them back. >> border patrol using pepper ball guns and canisters or tear gas at those groups in order to get -- hold them back, made several arrests. the mexican government also now saying that if individuals try to cross illegally and engage in this sort of behavior, they, o too, will deport them back to their home countries, most of them from central america. the mexican government, for many months now, has been deporting thousands of central americans coming through mexico if they break the rules here in mexi...
This is pepper spray. we have got the stream which is used on individuals. and then we've got the fogger which we have to fog spaces like seg cells or things like that. next weapons system is a pepper ball gun. it actually fires a .67 caliber pepper ball and we can use this to shoot off the walls and fog an area if we can't get directly to the offender or if they're out of the range of the spray. this is similar to the tear gas you see police use where if there's a large area that they need to affect, to move people back or control their movement, this is what we are going to employ. finally t...
It actually fires a .67 caliber pepper ball and we can use this to shoot off the walls and fog an area if we can't get directly to the offender or if they're out of the range of the spray. this is similar to the tear gas you see police use where if there's a large area that they need to affect, to move people back or control their movement, this is what we are going to employ. finally this is a riot control weapon. it fires a .37 millimeter wooden baton round. the round is fired at the floor, skipped into the offenders' legs. it's designed to discourage offenders from doing what they're doing ...
Here and well-entrenched here, and routinely will insert itself into other events and use the large crowd to make them anonymous while they break windows, start fires and damage cars and things. like i said, we've made several arrests. some folks we're familiar with, some folks we're not familiar with. we're -- you know, as i'm talking to you right now i can hear munitions being deployed on the streets. >> what is being deployed? >> less lethal munitions, things like sting balls, pepper ball, pepper spray. our officers in the last couple of hours have taken rocks, bottles, other projectiles be...