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The Department of Homeland Security announced that ICE will begin equipping agents with non-lethal electronic shock gloves, raising concerns from Democrats and civil rights advocates about officer safety tools.
The Department of Homeland Security announced that ICE agents will begin carrying and using non-lethal electronic shock gloves—devices that deliver electrical current to incapacitate people. The announcement has drawn swift criticism from Democratic lawmakers and civil rights organizations over both the safety implications and the signals it sends about escalation.
Equipping enforcement agents with shock weapons during a surge in arrests and detentions is a straightforward statement about how the agency plans to handle resistance or non-compliance. These gloves aren't standard officer safety tools—they're designed to disable people. Introducing them into detention facilities and during immigration enforcement operations, at the same time detainees are on hunger strikes over conditions and an agent has already shot a journalist, suggests a pattern of increasing force rather than reform.
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