A federal judge refused Monday to dissolve her previous order restricting the Los Angeles Police Department ‘s use of “less lethal” 40-millimeter and 37-millimeter projectile launchers against crowds at demonstrations except by officers trained and certified to use such weapons.

In a written ruling, U.S. District Judge Consuelo B. Marshall also forbade police from aiming the weapons at the upper bodies or kidneys, chest, groin or spine of persons. The launchers can only be used at a distance of five feet or greater from another person, unless an officer or other person is attacked and there is a threat of imminent serious harm, the judge wrote.

The judge further ordered that the LAPD must give a verbal warning to disperse, consistent with the department’s use-of-force directive, and

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