Civil liberties groups decry plan to use gloves linked to death of Kentucky man allegedly shocked 27 times in county jail

Civil liberties groups decry plan to use gloves linked to death of Kentucky man allegedly shocked 27 times in county jail

Plans to supply Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers with special gloves that can deliver electric shocks have alarmed experts and drawn scrutiny amid some high-profile lawsuits over their use in local correctional facilities.

In one extreme case, a 43-year-old man died after allegedly being shocked 40 times by officers with a combination of the gloves and a Taser in a county jail in Kentucky, and the man’s widow is suing authorities.

Earlier this month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the parent agency of ICE, published plans to spend up to $20m (£15m) to outfit ICE officers by March of next year with the controversial gloves, which are also used in various police departments and some schools.

  • Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world
    71·
    8 hours ago

    I still don’t understand how americans aren’t rallied behind a national workers union? AFL CIO Don’t they see that protests doesn’t change anything? They ignore yall protests cause business continues as usual. And its his second term already… Hold all profit hostage untill trump and ICE are in jail, I cant take this anymore, how can anyone is beyond me. No respect untill americans learn to unionize or idk hold people responsible for their crimes

    • AviAdi@lemmy.world
      71·
      8 hours ago

      Meh half of Americans still support ICE and think it’s necessary to lock people up for being “illegal”

          • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
            1·
            22 minutes ago

            Thank you for the link!

            Six in 10 Americans disapprove of the job ICE is doing, while about 3 in 10 approve.

            So in reality about twice as many people oppose ICE as support them. I think Americans have a lot of opinions they need to reconsider, but the ICE problem isn’t being driven by that, it’s being driven by a government that can pursue extreme and violent policies regardless of public opinion, which is a whole different problem to deal with, and I think that problem is only made worse by overstating the degree of popular support ICE has.

            The question people need to be asking themselves about this issue is not “Why do so many people support this?”, it’s “Why doesn’t our government listen to us?”

      • Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world
        31·
        8 hours ago

        right? I cant believe it… The only thing I see is injustice, lies, fraud, manipulation, the world going backwards, more hate, more violence. Are people really this blind? I give up man they deserve this

            • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
              11·
              3 hours ago

              77% of republicans think the US is safer with how ICE is operating.

              37% of the US is cool with it.

            • dan1101@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              6 hours ago

              That’s closer to reality I think.

              A small percentage of people definitely support ICE. Maybe not everything ICE is doing, but overall.

              But people who don’t support ICE have a lot to worry about if the full weight of the federal government and their armed goons is unleashed on them and they are kidnapped to a concentration camp. Individuals don’t stand a lot of chance resisting and not even Congressmen are having much luck changing anything.

                • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  13 minutes ago

                  So in other words more than a 60% supermajority of Americans don’t support ICE

                  For MAGA Republicans

                  Cult members gonna cult. What percentage of likely voters are identifying as MAGA now and what was that same number in January 2025? Because I’d bet that’s gone down