{"id":18707,"date":"2026-02-07T02:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-democrats-launch-investigation-into-dhs-use-of-less-lethal-weapons-after-string-of-injuries\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T02:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:22:09","slug":"house-democrats-launch-investigation-into-dhs-use-of-less-lethal-weapons-after-string-of-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-democrats-launch-investigation-into-dhs-use-of-less-lethal-weapons-after-string-of-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"House Democrats launch investigation into DHS use of &#8216;less lethal&#8217; weapons after string of injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee on Friday launched a probe into the Department of Homeland Security&rsquo;s (DHS) arsenal of &ldquo;less lethal&rdquo; weapons, citing a string of serious injuries, including during protests over the death of Renee Good.   &ldquo;It is clear that something is rotten at DHS&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5726561-house-democrats-dhs-less-lethal-weapons\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee on Friday launched a probe into the Department of Homeland Security&rsquo;s (DHS) arsenal of &ldquo;less lethal&rdquo; weapons, citing a string of serious injuries, including during protests over the death of Renee Good. &ldquo;It is clear that something is rotten at DHS&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}