BOSTON (AP) – Boston Police Commissioner Kathleen O’Toole met for more than an hour Friday with students and community leaders who called for restrictions on police use of so-called “less-lethal weapons” like the pepper-spray pellet gun that killed an Emerson College student in October.

O’Toole did not agree to an outright ban of the weapons as a crowd-control measure – as requested by the group – but reiterated that the gun that killed student Victoria Snelgrove has been shelved while police and an independent committee investigate Snelgrove’s death. The firearm that was used in Snelgrove’s shooting was known as the FN303.

O’Toole also told the activists that police policies on the use of lethal and non-lethal force are being reviewed as a result of Snelgrove’s death, according to several people who were present at the closed-door meeting.

David Gullette, an English professor at Simmons College, said O’Toole agreed with the group that police should use the minimum amount of force necessary when trying to control large crowds.

“She and we see eye to eye on that. How that works out is going to take a lot of work,” Gullette said.

Snelgrove, 21, died hours after being hit in the eye socket with a pepper-spray pellet fired by police during a raucous celebration outside Fenway Park after the Red Sox beat the archrival New York Yankees to win the American League pennant in October.

In addition to an internal affairs investigation, O’Toole named a special outside panel to look into the shooting and police policies. Former U.S. Attorney Donald Stern is leading that investigation.

O’Toole called her meeting with activists Friday “open, candid and constructive.”

“Open communication with all interested parties can only make this process better, and lend greater credibility to the recommendations that will result from the investigations,” she said in a prepared statement.