Protests in Ferguson, Missouri have reached a terrifying fever pitch, and the ludicrously armed Ferguson Police Department is bringing all its crowd-control weapons to bear, tear gas, stun grenades, ...

Sound has long been used as a weapon. The Germans put sirens on Stuka dive bombers in World War II to amplify the terror to unlucky souls below. Jamaican maroons ...

Just as activists have raised their voices demanding justice for George Floyd and the many killed by police violence, the police have met them with their own sound: the LRAD. These audio devices, ...

Its effects have been likened to standing in front of a jet engine -- a blast of amplified sound capable of inducing headaches, panic, and potential hearing loss. This is the LRAD, or Long Range ...

On the night of December 4th, 2014, demonstrators filled the streets in protest of the grand jury's failure to indict Daniel Pantaleo for killing Eric Garner. Anika Edrei, Shay Horse, James Craven, ...

A judge has ruled that a lawsuit against the NYPD for officers' use of a Long Range Acoustic Device sound cannon at a Black Lives Matter protest can proceed, because "sound can be used as a force." ...

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Audio producer Cory Choy was reporting on the 2014 Black Lives Matter protests in New York City when he first experienced sound as a weapon. “Horrible, nauseating pain hit my body,” he tells Popular ...

RANCHO BERNARDO —- LRAD Corp., known for its pirate-deterring,long-range acoustical devices, is spinning off its other majortechnology into a separate, publicly traded company. LRAD said Thursday it ...

A student who went to photograph a Black Lives Matter protest was warned that New York City police might use a sound cannon against demonstrators. "My friend said, 'If you hear this, plug your ears ...

New York City has reached a nearly $750,000 settlement with a group of plaintiffs who say they were injured when police deployed a "sound cannon" against protesters who took to the streets in 2014 ...

December 17, 2007: While U.S. efforts to deploy it's microwave Active Denial System (which transmits a searchlight sized bean of energy when makes people downrange feel like their skin is on fire) ...