The NYPD deployed a sound cannon that a lawsuit alleges left protesters of Eric Garner’s death with long-term hearing problems. Should the device even be part of the PD’s arsenal?

The NYPD will have to now generate a written policy for use of the devices, which were first used by the Navy. City Settles Lawsuit From Protesters Who Accused NYPD Of Firing Sound Cannon At Them ...

A Massachusetts filmmaker claims a sound cannon used by NYPD cops to control a Midtown crowd protesting Eric Garner’s death damaged his hearing. Michael Nusbaum, 26, wants permission to sue the ...

The bulky square model used in New York during those protests can produce sound of up to 137 decibels at one meter, according to an instructor’s guide created by the Police Department in 2018 ...

A federal judge is requiring the New York Police Department to face assault charges for using a potentially deafening sound cannon during a 2014 protest. U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet ruled ...

A half-dozen people blasted by an NYPD sound cannon at a Black Lives Matter protest in Manhattan can proceed with their excessive force lawsuit after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Monday. The city ho… ...

NYPD sound cannons may be excessive force, judge rules. By Fox News. Published June 2, 2017 12:58pm EDT | Updated ... (LRAD), the sound cannon used, according to the product’s website.

The NYPD first used one to make announcements during the 2004 protests against the Republican National Convention. In 2009, Pittsburgh police used the LRAD's high-deciblel weapon function against ...

The LRAD, or long range acoustic hailing device, disorients individuals in its vicinity.

MANHATTAN (CN) — To learn how the New York City Police Department deploys sound cannons, the average citizen should simply be able to fire off an email under the state’s Freedom of Information Law.

NEW YORK — Police officers first deployed the earsplitting beeps against protesters more than a decade ago in Pittsburgh: painfully loud noises emitted from a powerful speaker atop a police ...