ICE officers may be adding a new item to their arsenal by next spring: gloves that emit electric jolts to control combative individuals. NewsNation's Tom Dempsey has the details.
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 did not respond…
ICE officers may be adding a new item to their arsenal by next spring: gloves that emit electric jolts to control combative individuals. NewsNation's Tom Dempsey reports the latest on "Morning in America." Start your day with "Morning in America," NewsNation's live three-hour national morning newscast hosted by Markie Martin. Weekdays starting at 6a/5C. #MorningInAmerica NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.
The manufacturer warns the gloves should not be used as punishment, against people merely exhibiting “verbal defiance or belligerence” or on high-risk populations.