Shock Gloves. What Could Go Wrong?
Ask your city council what agreements your local police have with ICE, and get the answer in writing. Then tell every official on that list, from your council members to your representatives in Congress, that they will never get your vote so long as they support this kind of un-American policing.
ICE just told us it’s spending up to $20 million on shock gloves. These gloves deliver a painful electrical charge designed to subdue a human being in three seconds or less. According to the manufacturer’s own warnings, do not use the device longer than 15 seconds. Do not put more than one pair on the same person at the same time. Touch arms or legs only, and stay off the head, face, throat, chest, and groin.
The warnings keep going, and they get worse. Do not use these gloves on the elderly, on children, on pregnant women, or on people with severe disabilities. Do not use them to stop someone from talking back. Do not use them as punishment. Do not use them to torture. A company writes that last line for one reason. It knows what happens to a pain device once it leaves the warehouse and lands on the hands of an agent standing in someone’s driveway at 6 a.m.
Now connect it to what you already see on your street. Black-masked agents swarming neighborhoods, arresting moms, teachers and local construction workers. The masks hide faces. They also erase the paper trail that accountability runs on, because you cannot file a complaint against a man you cannot identify. Add a $20 million supply of hand-worn pain compliance tools to that same anonymous force and you get the real message: comply, stay quiet, and understand that no one is coming to check the receipts. I wrote about the original issues last May, 2025, in Why Are ICE Agents Hiding Their Faces?
I still believe you have leverage. Call your congressional representative and your senators this week (contact info) and demand the written use-of-force policy governing this purchase. Ask your city council what agreements your local police have with ICE, and get the answer in writing. Then tell every official on that list, from your council members to your representatives in Congress, that they will never get your vote so long as they support this kind of un-American policing.
Keep your phone charged and record what happens in your neighborhood. Anonymity is the whole strategy, so take it away from them.
Mitch Jackson, Esq.
Governments do not announce what they are doing. They file it. They bury it in a procurement notice, in a sentence a lawyer was paid to make sure you would never finish reading. Somebody has to sit with those documents and translate them back into English. That is the work your upgrade funds.
This is inhumane. This goes beyond creating intimidation or fear, this is intentional torture intended by the government; especially since we’ve seen how ICE treats every person who is recording and witnessing the unlawful treatment of the immigrants.
This could be you, me, my neighbor being pulled from our cars, or simply walking about and being pulled aside for no reason at all. This is truly gut wrenching and absolutely horrifying. And still, no accountability for their actions but instead more powerful and deadly weapons at their disposal. All funded by our federal government with our tax dollars.
Guess there is a shock-glove company out there that just won a NO-BID contract to furnish ICE gang members with torture devices.
I assume Don Jr. is on the board.