Pain compliance is not de-escalation. Pain compliance is assault.

We've been through this conversation before with Tasers, which are meant to be used as an alternative to lethal force,¹ but are routinely used by law enforcement and state paramilitaries before they would draw a firearm. While commonplace in the United States, that is deliberate misuse.

If ICE were following actual policing protocol, they'd stick to shock wands, which look like what they do. Electric gloves have the same purpose as sap gloves (gloves loaded with shot), which is to give the illusion that less force is being applied than actually is. They are intended to make violence caught on video less evident.

¹ Tasers are technically less lethal and victims are killed by them uncommonly.

Ohh so they not only able to choke people but also give em a shock. This is like the weapons wear by super villain's lackey

May they consistently forget to take them off when they piss

I'm not trying to make light of this, but given what I've seen from the "best and brightest" ICE has to offer, I think we are gonna wind up with a bunch of morons with singed micro-penises.

Seems they're spending lots of money on the paramilitary and very little on the citizens. Someone will be herded like sheep in the very near future. Guess which one?

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.

I'll take "people being shocked accused of resisting arrest" for 300!

Water buckets it is.

The world is getting a bit dystopian for me....

Florida Man Electrocutes Himself While Masturbating

I can't wait until they use it on perfectly innocent people for shits and giggles

Death to ICE
Nazi lives don't matter

Dude who slipped on ice is defo gonna shock himself scratching his ass with these

So stun gun gloves. That's absolutely a weapon aimed at intimidation and "punishment" plain and simple. Stun guns aren't tasers and can't incapacitate someone in the same way. So they intend to use these on unarmed people. Even the most bastard cops know that stun guns make no sense for police.

So these gloves are super fucked and really exactly what a fascist force would like to use on people, but honestly it's so blatant this is going nowhere. The first time these were used a judge would rip ICE a new one. I'll bet everyone forgets about this pretty fast and the gloves never happen.

ICE plans to spend up to $20 million to purchase thousands of “conductive distraction and de-escalation devices” for officers and agents by March

Distraction and de-escalation? Gee that sounds very reasonable.

Compliant Technologies says the devices function as a normal pair of patrol gloves until officers press a switch to activate their electrical mode. The gloves must be applied directly to someone’s skin to deliver a pain stimulus that typically helps an officer gain compliance within seconds, according to the company.

Ah, so not so much a de-escalation tool as a compliance enforcement device. I'll give ten to one that within a month of deployment we hear stories of them grabbing some poor sod by the nuts with them to make him unlock his phone.

I hope they forget they are wearing them when they go to the bathroom.

that's to stop them from touching their crotches.

The shock from these gloves can kill you. Consider it deadly force. Proceed accordingly.

Joy buzzers!

Maybe they'll do a lot of high-fives and this whole thing will solve itself

Wat? Doesnt the second avatar series have people who fight with shocker gloves? Reality really is stranger than fucking fiction.

until the inevitable incident where they high-five each other

That's just the plot of Avatar Legend of Korra!

Pussies.

Minority Report sick sticks when?

So shoot from a form of a bunker, got it.