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I read about something like this in a Popular Science magazine several months ago. The DoD was supposedly looking into a kind of "pain ray" that could temporarily immobilize people. One of the companies involved was developing a ray that would cause your skin to feel like it was on fire but left no permanant damage.
I don't remember reading that such a weapon would be used on protesters. It would, however, certainly make someone think twice about throwing that molotov cocktail if there was a mega-pain ray aimed at him or her, wouldn't it?
On the battlefield, it wouldn't make much sense, as the victims of the ray would live to fight and kill you tomorrow (unless the good guys could somehow enter the ray and take the enemies prisoner while they were twitching around on the ground).
The way the govt. operates with all its secrets, what we hear about things like this usually ends up being a small fraction of what is actually going on. There's a lot more to this story somewhere, but we won't likely hear it for several years.
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