NEW YORK (AP) — Not five minutes after police slipped a “spit hood” over Daniel Prude’s head, the 41-year-old Black man went limp. A week later, he was taken off life support. Prude’s suffocation in ...

Scotland's police are resorting to the use of spit hoods every four hours to shield themselves from public attacks. Staggering new statistics reveal that they have been utilised nearly 9,000 times in ...

Smyrna police officers asked the town council to approve two new restraint tools — hobbles to restrict leg movement and spit ...

Use of force by cops on suspects shot up during their investigation last year into gangland violence. The latest Police Scotland figures - obtained by the Daily Record - show rises in the deployment ...

Police have defended their use of a clear mesh bag known as a spit mask or spit hood on a combative 12-year-old boy as irate bystanders videotaped the tense encounter in Sacramento while objecting ...