A federal judge blocked a Seattle rule barring police from using tear gas, pepper spray and other crowd-control measures during protests
A federal judge temporarily blocked a Seattle ordinance that would ban police from using less-lethal tools to control protests after the city’s police chief said the law would leave her officers unable to protect property during violence.
The Seattle City Council unanimously passed the ban on tear gas, pepper spray and other crowd-control measures in June. The ban was supposed to take effect Sunday and would have coincided with demonstrations planned in the city in support of protests in Portland, Ore.
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