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ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks (www.nbcnews.com)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/c/news@lemmy.world/p/897899/ice-plans-to-give-officers-gloves-that-can-deliver-painful-electric-shocks

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[–] 40 points 4 days ago (3 children)

This will absolutely not be used to abuse human rights and to torture people who can't fight back.

Jesus, USA, it's really hard watching from the outside what the MAGAs are doing with a country that was once - while by far not perfect - on a pretty good trajectory regarding improvement of civil rights. You lost all that in about a decade or two.

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  • [–] 34 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Its worse.

    Can you tell the difference from across the street between shock gloves and regular gloves? Its so they can use excessive force that doesnt look like it.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (1 child)

    Good point, though I would expect the effects of these gloves on the victim to be visible from across the street. That’s assuming they are like tasers. People react pretty visibly.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 days ago

    "The gloves werent on, the perpetrator was faking"

    "The gloves malfunctioned"

    ZAP "STOP RESISTING!" ZAP "I SAID STOP RESISTING!" ZAP "STOP STRUGGING!"

    "Those were regular gloves, not the shock gloves."

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago

    You lost all that in about a decade or two.

    On the surface, yeah, but I'd argue that the plan to remove civil rights had been underway for ~50yrs before. And more than that, it's also been a recurring theme that dates back to before the very founding of the country, via slavery, genocide and so forth.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    History lesson. Hitler took the Rhineland and nobody did squat - he accelerated. Putin took Crimea and nobody did anything. The orange pedophile allowed ICE goons to kill Renee Nicole Good and Alex Jeffrey Pretti and there was no push-back so he upped his game. It only stops when there is equal or greater force used.

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