Is it correct that a jet fighter can be used as a non-lethal (sonic) weapon? Imagine you have a crowd of people, who want to go to a certain territory (e. g. close to the border). An airplane flies over them such that when it reaches supersonic speed, there is a loud bang. People hear it, it hurts, and for several days they are deaf. That noise scares them off, and after some time most of them recover (i. e. there is no permanent injury to their ears).

I heard this story from a source I don't trust.

Can this be true? Could you, in theory, protect the border of a country from intruding crowds by simply flying over them (provided the crowds can't down the plane)?
Sonic booms from low flying aircraft, while loud, don't seem to cause hearing damage, as this F-14 pilot demonstrates during a Tiger Cruise air wing demonstration.


                
            

Now military fighters will sometimes make a 'show of force' in the form of a low altitude, high speed pass against threat forces which don't have a substantial IADS capability in order to motivate them to disperse under threat of employing ordanance on them if they continue belligerence.

UPDATE:  I found this story about an F-16 2-ship over Iraq on a CAS patrol mission.  The pilots get a radio call from desperate SOCOM operators pinned down by enemy troops at night.  The pilots cannot get a IR strobe to track for bombing, so the lead Viper uses a sonic boom delivered from a dive to frighten off the combatants.