The proposed restriction would that police use chemical weapons and impact projectiles only if a supervising officer witnesses violence or destruction of property and determines the situation cannot be controlled or de-escalated.
After months of debate, the Massachusetts Legislature passed a police reform bill banning chokeholds, creating a state-level oversight committee and allowing officers to report each other’s inappropriate or violent conduct.
On Tuesday, an attack on the rebel-held Syrian town of Khan Shaykhun killed 58 people. It is not immediately clear which regime-backed force carried out the attack.
One thing is clear: people were killed...
While U.S. President Barack Obama said he has postponed military action in Syria to allow Congress to consider Russia’s proposal of confiscating and destroying Syria’s chemical weapons, Boston University...
