ICE to spend up to $20M on electric shock gloves

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Avery Lotz,  Breaking News Reporter  -  AXIOSStephan: You have probably heard or seen this latest development in Trump's Gestapo trend, but I am running this in SR to ask you think about what it is telling us about Trump's authoritarianism, and what America has become. Why is he spending $20 million of your tax dollars to equip his ICE thugs with electric shock gloves? The answer, I think, is that Trump and his serviles are tired of the media coverage of an ICE thug brannishing guns. Now they will only have to touch a person to harm them; it will make them even more fear provoking, which is what every Gestapo wants. This is what Trump and the Republicans have turned American society into. It is unprecedented and the world now looks at the United States with loathing. ICE agents walk a detainee out of the Ventura County Government Center in California on July 27. Credit: Blake Fagan / AFP / Getty Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to begin using electric shock gloves designed to cause pain and disrupt a person’s ability to react. The big picture: The gloves could give ICE officers a new way to use force as their tactics face intense scrutiny after several deaths and violent encounters. Driving the news: ICE plans to spend between $10 and $20 million on the gloves and issue them to Homeland Security Investigations and Enforcement Removal Operations officers and agents, per a Department of Homeland Security notice published Monday. The Associated Press was first to report the plan. The CTG-5 Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter, or G.L.O.V.E, is produced by Kentucky-based Compliant Technologies, which declined to comment. The device’s user guide says it should not be used against verbal defiance or as a form of punishment. The manufacturer advises against using it on the elderly, children, pregnant women and those with serious disabilities. Friction point: Jenn [...]Read the Full Article »