Beshear Criticizes Plan Giving ICE Officers Kentucky-Made Electric Shock Gloves
The $10 million to $20 million purchase drew criticism from civil rights groups and Kentucky officials who say the gloves are unnecessary and inhumane.
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This federal police force, which was mandated by Donald Trump's government to put in place its policy of mass expulsion of undocumented people, has become a symbol of the drifts of this policy seen as particularly brutal.
US Immigration Officers To Use Electric Shock Gloves On Anyone Resisting Them
[Image: ChatGPT] As if US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents aren’t aggressive enough in their tactics, they are now going to be supplied with gloves that deliver powerful electric shocks. While it’s been said that they are not as strong as a taser, they will still be hectic enough to bring anyone they are trying to restrain to the ground, having been designed to cause pain and impair a person’s ability to respond within seconds. T…
Controversy grows over ICE's plan to give agents Kentucky-made electric shock gloves
This comes one year after Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg implemented the 48-hour ICE detainer request requiring the jail to hold immigrant inmates for 48 hours past their release date to give ICE an opportunity to pick them up.
John Sandweg, who served as interim director of ICE bass, said this is another “dangerous tool to act against citizens and immigrants alike”
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