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Progressive Witch's avatar

Shock gloves are already being given to LEOs for public schools. These do not need to exist. This is capitalism. ABOLISH CAPITALISM‼️ SOCIALIST✅ Revolution for a communist♥️ future‼️👇

https://substack.com/@stateofsiege/note/c-314331771?r=50tmxf&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

Linda Meier's avatar

Shock gloves=people will be killed by ICE terrorists using them to kill.

Kay Boling's avatar

What happens to the wearer if hit by a bucket of water?

Would it cause the asshat who's wearing the stun gloves to get electrocuted?

Pleeease say yes.

Eric's avatar

An example of a formal letter to Congress:

I write as a constituent demanding immediate action on ICE's operational practices, which now represent an unaccountable federal enforcement force operating outside the basic norms of American law enforcement.

Officer safety matters. But officer safety cannot be invoked to erase the civil rights of the citizens and legal residents those officers are sworn to serve. Those rights are equally important, and one cannot be sacrificed to protect the other.

Three facts, taken together, describe a structure with no accountability:

First, ICE agents routinely wear face masks and refuse to identify themselves during arrests, in violation of federal regulation requiring officers to identify themselves as authorized to make an arrest. Second, agents operate without visible badges or numeric IDs, making it impossible for a person who is assaulted, wrongfully detained, or racially profiled to file a complaint against a specific individual. Third, ICE is now spending up to $20 million on "shock glove" devices that inflict pain through direct skin contact and leave no burn marks or forensic evidence — meaning a masked, unnamed agent can now deploy force that is nearly impossible to prove after the fact.

A masked agent with no name, no badge number, and a weapon that leaves no trace is not a de-escalation tool. It is the removal of every mechanism by which a citizen could hold that agent accountable. This is not a partisan objection — members of both parties have introduced legislation (the VISIBLE Act, the No Masks for ICE Act) because they recognize this gap poses risk to citizens and legal residents alike, not just to undocumented individuals.

I am asking you to:

1. Cosponsor and champion legislation requiring visible ID, agency name, and badge numbers for all federal immigration enforcement officers.

2. Demand a full DHS accounting and independent oversight of the shock glove procurement and use-of-force policy.

3. Publicly state your position on this issue.

No public official who defends unaccountable, unidentifiable federal force will receive my vote. Please respond with your position.

Respectfully,

BigDaddy52's avatar

Hope there is truth to reaping the whirlwind....

jstudley's avatar

Their FB page has a bunch of posts with seriously negative comments under their posts. https://www.facebook.com/complianttech/

BigDaddy52's avatar

Am betting their position is they're doing the appropriate disclaimers and are not responsible for end users' malfeasance.

David L. Smith's avatar

Would rubber-soled shoes provide insulation from shock? What if the victim were to grab the perpetrato wearing leather boots and redirect the current back on him?

BigDaddy52's avatar

Nope. Gonna be like getting Tased or tagged with a cattle prod. Gonna knock you down.

BigDaddy52's avatar

BTW, company website seems to indicate glove must be in contact with skin of person being zapped. So there's that consolation.

Kate's avatar

There’s a lot to unpack, but what does it say about ICE or any agency if they have to be warned not to put two pairs on at once!?

Joe Mirsky's avatar

One wonders what the ramifications will be when the first or second recipient of the “shock gloves” goes into cardiac arrest.

BigDaddy52's avatar

Less than the penalty for gunning one down, I'll betcha.

BeOfService's avatar

These gloves are similar to cattle prods and Tasers, and that is how we should refer to them. Sadly, both are legal in much of the United States, though they shouldn't be, and ICE would be the last agency anybody should trust with them. I think they should be outlawed nationwide. Too bad our congress is currently dysfunctional and neutered by the Republican majority.

Paul Stregevsky's avatar

Where have we seen this glove before? Oh, right: it was used by a James Bond villain: https://youtu.be/FfHFJiUCn6M?t=276&is=8X8VeYx7oByfOppH

Disgusted Veteran's avatar

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.

J Glaspie's avatar

This is from Jess Craven's "Chop Wood Carry Water":

Let’s contact Compliant Technologies, the company that makes ICE’s electric shock gloves, and tell them what we think of their arming a bunch of Gestapo thugs. They brag that they are an all-veteran-run company. Yikes!

Their contact form is here: https://www.complianttechnologies.net/contact? (thanks to reader Wendy for finding it!) Here’s what I said, although I’m sure you can do better:

I think it is awful that an all veteran run company is selling electrical shock gloves to ICE agents who will use them to violate the law and the US Constitution on a daily basis. Your products will be used to separate families, terrorize small children, subdue peaceful protestors, devastate communities, and almost certainly kill innocent people. I don’t know how you can live with yourselves. You’ve abandoned whatever oath to the Constitution you may have once taken, as well as the American principles of due process, civil rights, and freedom of speech. Shame on you.

Maria Kodabakshian's avatar

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.

Glenda torres's avatar

Fascism at its finest - we will not tolerate such thuggery in supposedly a free nation