Shock gloves bought by ICE cause intense pain, Army study says
First reported 7 Oct, 00:32 UTCUpdated 2h ago4 sources
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Participants in a military exercise felt intense pain, stopped fighting immediately and feared additional exposures, according to an Army study.
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Immigration enforcement agency has signed $16.7m deal for devices that induced ‘excessive’ fear in military subjects The electric-shock gloves immigration agents could soon use to control detainees and protesters worked so powerfully during a military exercise that participants felt intense pain, stopped fighting…
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- Study: Shock Gloves Traumatized Army Volunteers (opens Mother Jones in a new tab)
A newly released military study paints a frightening picture of the electric shock gloves ICE recently purchased by the thousands—and which the agency and its acting head David Venturella seem eager to deploy regardless of the potential consequences. Records unearthed by the watchdog group American Oversight and first…
- Shock gloves bought by ICE cause intense pain, Army study says (opens CBS News in a new tab)
Participants in a military exercise felt intense pain, stopped fighting immediately and feared additional exposures, according to an Army study.
- Electric-shock gloves ICE plans to use inflicted intense pain in army study (opens The Guardian in a new tab)
Immigration enforcement agency has signed $16.7m deal for devices that induced ‘excessive’ fear in military subjects The electric-shock gloves immigration agents could soon use to control detainees and protesters worked so powerfully during a military exercise that participants felt intense pain, stopped fighting…
- Shock gloves purchased by ICE cause ‘intense pain’ and fear, Army study found (opens The Independent in a new tab)
‘Everyone should be alarmed that ICE is preparing to deploy a tool designed to inflict, at best, intense pain, without showing that it is safe for the people who will be subjected to it’
