NPR (Meg Anderson) - ICE plans to outfit officers with electric shock gloves
The company that makes the gloves, Compliant Technologies, says they're a nonlethal tool to make individuals compliant during arrests.
AI:ICE is moving forward with plans to equip agents with electric shock gloves manufactured by Compliant Technologies as part of an effort to utilize nonlethal tools during arrests. The Department of Homeland Security aims to use these devices to increase individual compliance and de-escalate potentially violent encounters, though the initiative has faced pushback from various critics following similar equipment considerations in recent months.Open