ICE plans to buy gloves that deliver electric shocks, AP reports
So i guess the GOP is cool with ICE using electric shock gloves? That feels a bit…. Hmmm…. Communist?
Mrs. Betty Bowers502Electric shock gloves sound like something that would wind up on the Gestapo's wish list. But, please, *don't* call ICE the American Gestapo. It hurts their feelings.
ResistDoc69Please stop with the red scare BS. It's not "communism", it's fascism. Learn the flippin' difference.
Jackie Knott42We KNOW they will abuse this. We KNOW they will torture people with it. We KNOW they will lie and cover for each other. As if current policy wasn't bad enough now they want a means to torment and abuse people further. The GOP is evil.
Chris⚖️Justice37ICE are chasing Misdemeanors or less! Abusing Power & People 24/7 Thx to Republicans
The Opinionated Retiree and Nasty Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦35My late parents came from Communist countries...they never heard of or experienced this level of insane cruelty. Both were Holocaust survivors and saw unimaginable horrors...but nothing like electric shock gloves! This administration are being lead by a bunch of sick sadistic animals.
captainwest.bsky.social32Every day our government is moving closer to North Korea. We even have the Great Leader and all of his little helpers.
Ernesto5Up to $20 MILLION of #Tax to equip ICE with #ElectricShockGloves? Treating human beings like cattle with hidden stun tech is HORRIFIC , BARBARIC , & UNACCEPTABLE . We can NOT normalize state-sponsored torture-demand accountability now @hrw.org #HumanRights #TaxPayers
Joe4If you don’t see how the powers that be view us as cattle, then you’ve never seen cattle prods.
okblue.bsky.social2It’s All About Forced Compliance, Inflicting Pain, And Terrorizing The Masses. Welcome To The Gulag.
Kathy - He's not my felon! | I'm for Ukraine & Gaza2I agree! Cruel and unusual punishment!
I went through the users manual for the GLOVE, the electric-shock weapon that ICE is reportedly about to get to use on whoever they feel like. All the promotional material shows a person immediately complying upon contact. But wait till you see what the recommended duration of the shock is.
Some Random Susan142I have a dangerous ventricular arrhythmia. (For the record, I’m not elderly, pregnant or severely disabled.) These would likely put me in cardiac arrest. There should be extensive info in there about potentially adverse effects on persons with pacemakers. Don’t see that mentioned.
Martin Robertson89it's torture they are Nazis
kristinekenyon.bsky.social75My 25-yo daughter has a pacemaker and these GLOVES could kill her. We will not stop protesting. ✊
Seth.ElChicoDeYaoi.39Ice is gonna kill someones dad by stopping his heart. :(
@jame5on36how come they won't sell them to the rest of us? what about my right to unbare arms?
there is a 100% chance that they will frequently shock each other, arrest someone innocent, and charge them with assault...
Lupita Nihongo107This is what the dudes you beat up in the Batman: Arkham games had. I think we called those guys bad guys.
John Oxley62Lot of people dwelling on the dystopian, authoritarian implications of this and not the *inevitable*, hilarious, self-inflicted injuries that will come of this.
Puff the Magic Hater6015 seconds. "CD3s [the family of technologies to which the G.LO.V.E. belongs] may increase the affects [sic] that can cause sudden death including physiological changes with"
Jessica Ellis48Think about how many of them will shock their own dicks
WhiteRoseAFA31The use of this, like tear gas, would be a war crime if used against a foreign soldier.
saoirse18i hope ice agents go to scratch their balls and immediately sterilize themselves
Trans Moleman, Street Estrogen Junkie13You just know they bought this because of that one Batman game
Richard Barnes8The good news from a countermeasures perspective is that these things can't shock you through your clothes or hair, only bare skin. Once again, the inflatable frog costume proves effective at neutralizing police weapons. www.complianttechnologies.net/faqs
Carrie Brown6I don't know the technical ways in which the gloves differ from Tasers, but in 2017 @grantmeaccess.bsky.social and colleagues at Reuters did an exhaustive and award-winning reporting on how deadly and dangerous Tasers are. www.reuters.com/investigates... This is horrific.
Bex 🖤🏴6Count 15 seconds. It's longer than you think. Imagine spending that entire time being electrocuted. And even if it's only a local shock, that still is a long time to be in cognition-interrupting pain.
The Department of Homeland Security plans to equip ICE agents with gloves that emit electric shocks to use on 'uncooperative people in the field', according to an agency notice.
DesertYETI43THe amount of money the government is going to be responsible for in lawsuit payments will be unfathomable.
Kernel Korn24Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable
LauraFT17This makes me nauseous to even think about. Hopefully they shock themselves & each other.
The Resistance CO14When is the right time to start open carrying? NOW?!
paintgarden4.bsky.social13This is insane. This MUST be a violation of any number of basic human rights. This administration is an authoritarian, sadistic nightmare masquerading as a US government. IMPEACH AND REMOVE TRUMP. He and his co-conspirators are UNFIT and they prove it over and over.
RoxSheep12They’ll end up using them on their wives and kids. They leave no physical evidence of abuse.
Lisa Guerrero29What could possibly go wrong? 🙄
cathygee3There is a nonzero chance that ICE agents use the gloves on themselves first.
Sunnyshell2By using them, they could send people into deadly cardiac arrhythmias...scare tactics! What if they got shoved into each other. It would look like a bunch of weasels in a burlap sack! These people are morons.
ICE wants to spend millions of our taxpayer dollars to equip their agents with these gloves while they carry out violent kidnappings across the country. If this happens ICE, as we’ve continually seen, will ignore the safety precautions. How long until we hear about cardiac deaths related to ICE?
50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑79We have the opportunity to stop this before the warning becomes a headline. Contact your representatives NOW. Demand Congress block funding for ICE’s electric shock gloves and stop their deployment.
Cynthia J Krueger9Cardiac deaths will occur on day one.
Tin Drummer9The nazi's would've loved these gloves. We can hope this contractor, like so many other Trump contractors (reflecting pool, anyone?) will eff up so badly that ICE alone experiences the shocks. I'm so sick of this shit.
James R. Byrne 📚🇦🇺🌻7The only comfort is they'll surely have a lot of accidents with them on themselves.
FunnyFeminist6As much as I would love an ICE agent to accidentally adjust his pecker while wearing one of these, the risk to human life is just too high.
Call me Cat5We can’t even get them to wear body cameras but they want shock gloves? Ah, come on! When will enough be enough?
Surely ICE, with its record of abusing ppl & lying abt it will abide by "The manufacturer warns the device should not be used as punishment, against ppl merely exhibiting “verbal defiance or belligerence” Nov 3, hold the enablers of these goons to account. Ensure you're ready to do so: vote.org
Kieran Hannon3Be sure to let the manufacturer Compliant Technologies LLC of Lexington, Kentucky, know how we feel.
Motivated She-Warrior1There’s a way to try to stop this! From A Mighty Girl: m.facebook.com/story.php?st...
W1Only Tarantino could make the proper movie about ICE. Where the tables and gloves are turned.
Omg. WTF is Happening?1Their cruelty knows no bounds.
timesawasting.bsky.social1Get your spray bottles ready with water.
loubumb2013.bsky.social1Bloody awful decision to give the perpetrators more ammunition 😡
humboldthunnybunny.bsky.social8Look on the bright side - The gloves will really cut down on them jerking off.
RogueResistanceKnitter 🥄🐸4JFC!! They're going to start torturing the people they're encountering.
John Andreini3To anyone who thinks things are going to get better on their own, if we just wait long enough, you are delusional. ICE isn't going away, Trump isn't going away, the fascist MAGA movement isn't going away until we decide to make them.
girlhasnoname8.bsky.social2Your tax dollars at work. Republicans love cruelty.
As if assaulting people and shooting people in the streets wasn’t enough. Now, they’re spending $20 million of YOUR taxpayer dollars on painful electric shock gloves for their masked, lawless goons. ICE must be stopped.
What fresh hell is this?!5So… ICE will be using gloves that electrocute people? Like cattle prods for ICE to use on anyone they please during their immigration roundups? We’ve seen the untrained, unstable and violent individuals hired for ICE, and now they’re getting ANOTHER TOOL TO KILL PEOPLE?!
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social2What happens to people wearing shock gloves if they are suddenly hosed off with a large amount of cold water?
Christianne Smith2For anyone with an arrhythmia, a pacemaker, or any other yet-to-be diagnosed heart condition, these gloves are a death sentence.
O. ⟭⟬ᴱ ᴬᴿᴱ ᴮ⟬⟭ᶜᴷ ⊙⊝⊜2Those gloves will kill people.
Gail Rebecca1This is GD Nazi Stephen AND Katie Miller’s and Company’s fucking wet dream I’ll be goddamned if we’re going to stand for this
Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz1And yet you’re out there endorsing David Jolly, a “former” republican, for governor. Bro. Seriously?
Marilyn8ICE shock gloves $20 Mil! Body cameras $zero. Expect more deaths if this isn’t stopped. Deadly for many with underlying conditions!👇👇👇
Thomas Fortenberry4It is almost as if abusers and rapists get off on hurting people. Making sure each touch does the most damage. Weird.
Lavender🎀Honey3Purity voters voted for this:
ICE plans to spend 20 million ( of our dollars) on gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks apnews.com/article/ice-...
Grandma Judy14Torture devices. Let’s hope they forget to turn them off in the bathroom.
Joan Wendland8I hope they forget to take them off when they pee
BD Max 🌵 🏜️ 🌄🌎🌏🌍💙🇺🇦🦋🧢7In November do NOT vote for a single republican. If gramps is running for a Republican office, just say “sorry gramps plans have changed.” If you’re a Republican this year and for the next few elections you’re on the wrong side of the plan now.
Me and6And 90% of the dems in power want to "reign them in"...
arch-villein6I feel like I'm watching a post-apocalyptic film about a repressive police state, except it isn't a film and it is now.
RKGamble6The cruelty has always been the point. 😭
ICE is buying electric shock gloves that leave no visible marks making it practically impossible to prove abuse when they’re used on people in shackles.
ElizaD 🐈🎈🔹️8This story is extremely disturbing - seemingly concocted straight from a Stephen Miller wet dream.
martyg1991.bsky.social5There will be a reckoning. Hopefully in our lifetime.
willystein.bsky.social4Come the revolution . . .ICE will be up against the wall ... for their violations on the American people.
Doug4That's not a bug, that's a feature.
Canerican™️ 🇨🇦🇺🇸3Maybe Americans should buy their own and wear them as they drive
kirklanderreturns.bsky.social3They aren't firing from 10 feet away. You have an opportunity, though slim in almost all scenarios, to redirect the charge via a conductor.
The ICE shock gloves are horrifying and will definitely be used to torture people but crucially they will also be drunkenly used on each other to prove they're not pussies
Vic! Perfecto47Everything I learned about Seal Team Six on the last BEHIND THE BASTARDS tells me that this is gospel truth
Matt L6At least one agent will absolutely activate them accidentally while pissing.
Andie 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈2Gotta start some phony man-o-sphere trend claiming that real men jack off with their horrifying shock gloves
There are many, many reasons our tax dollars should not be used to buy ICE agents electric torture gloves. Adding one: this pool of guys has an alarming rate of domestic violence charges. Horrified to think how they’ll use the gloves off duty (And on duty of course.). apnews.com/article/ice-...
Mary Stacey1Nobody should have electric torture gloves. Ban those things before they get a foothold in our demented imaginations.
Susi in Shenandoah1Our world continues its steep slide into depravity. Heartbreaking!
arthurdunger.bsky.social1Sometime in the not too distant future ICE agents will be desperately trying to de-identify themselves to avoid trial Just like Gestapo and SS officers after WWII
Áine ní Donnghaile 🍃🌳 ⚾ 🫖 💙☘ 🍷💉🌊 1Can we hope they forget to take them off when answering a call of nature?
Vamos Heavenly Creature🇺🇦1this is sick. torture as you’re being assaulted and abducted and 100% of the victims innocent.
danhowley.bsky.social1Aren't we signatories to international agreements against torture?
ICE is about to spend 20M on gloves that can instantly incapacitate a grown adult with a high voltage shock. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Call your reps. This cannot happen. Script at end of video.
jackdanielsonice66.bsky.social5So, pregnant women, elderly people with pacemakers and those who may have chips in their head to control epilepsy will be the first to fall; not to mention just outright stopping people's heart. I've seen vicious before, but nothing like this.
spintastic1.bsky.social3And they’ll have them just prior to the election. Coincidence? I think not.
Solenne-e-um1It's not easy to identify many high risk individuals and when have these agents abided by the law anyway. This needs to be stopped. Another example of cruel and unusual inhumane treatment.
ydlr.bsky.social1Gloves are made by Compliant Technologies LLC of Lexington KY. I'm sure they'd like sume customer feedback on the gloves we're buying
Anne SaraPDX1Maybe we’ll be lucky and they won’t take them off when they go to pee
For whatever border agency replaces ICE, the “Are we the baddies?” sketch should be part of Day 1 of the training. www.cnn.com/2026/08/12/u...
Jacob T. Levy23SPOILERS for Spider-Man Brand New Day It is literally a plot point in the most popular movie in the world right now that these were the weapons of a super-villain and that when we see a government agency adopting them, *that tells us that the government agency is now villainous.*
Emil Archambault1“Does your standard gear include something that’s used by a Bond villain?” (in this case, Die Another Day) should be part of the internal evaluations too.
DHS is planning to spend $20 Million dollars to outfit ICE with the CGT-5 G. L. O. V. E Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter. Shock Gloves. Claiming they'll be used as De-escalation tools. I think it sounds like a lot of Peaceful Protesters will be shocked and injured next Spring. #DeFundICE
Terisa3Gonna have to hose them down...
reneedodson.bsky.social3I’ll bet if you throw water at them they’ll electrocute themselves
John G.3Who's got the pool on when the first one of those idiots manages to shock himself trying to unzip to pee?
JJMA2Stop giving them these latest weapons. Cruel and unusual punishment in the hands of the untrained, unvetted and unempathetic.
bic pentameter (reckless poetry) ❌2may they all short circuit and shock their wearers into cardiac arrest.
So they made the gloves from Legend of Korra and our tax dollars are buying them for the masked men who break into cars to kidnap people
Alli Shaw43Masked men with guns and tasers and tanks communicate violence pretty effectively when photographed, gloves do not. They are switching gears in optics arms race.
Scylla3What the fuck. I hate this timeline
Fanimal (2k Celebration Art Share!🎉)2Thanks, I hate it I hope they aren't waterproof or something and can be countered by something simple
Ru Xu2we truly live in the stupidest timeline...