As he starts to head down the hill, an officer can be heard saying "Do it," before Boyd is hit with a flash-bang device.
To the extent that a flash-bang device is used as a diversionary tactic, it should be used only after careful and extensive planning, and only where the police have determined that it can be used safely without harming children, elderly persons, or other innocent persons.
Defendant, who was sleeping on a recliner near the door, was ordered to show his hands and get down, which he did, but not before another entering officer threw a flash-bang device into the center of the room which exploded near the defendant, causing first and second-degree burns to his body.
Meanwhile, other officers stationed outside the house shot out the second-story windows with rubber bullets and kicked in several doors, while other officers attempting to secure the second floor blindly threw a second flash-bang device into an open area near where a man and woman were lying in bed, the explosion causing the bed to catch fire.
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Around 200 ppl have gathered two blocks from Franklin awaiting news April 20 , 2013WBZ-Boston and others have said police have used "flash-bang" devices at the scene, designed to disorient the suspect.
Earlier in the night, for the second night in a row, Portland protesters blocked traffic and threw objects at police dressed in riot gear who responded with pepper spray and flash-bang devices.
Less-than-lethal weapons, such as rubber bullets, bean bags and flash-bang devices, can't be used for crowd control.
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When officers heard gunshots inside, they hurled in some nonlethal explosive flash-bang devices to divert the shooter and then rammed the wall a few more times, finally breaking into one of the bathrooms where the hostages were trapped with the gunman.
The police use of "flash-bang" incendiary devices to execute warrants has received some limited discussion by the courts, but the issue has largely escaped public attention.
