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.
Meh half of Americans still support ICE and think it’s necessary to lock people up for being “illegal”
Citation needed
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
Good, you really shouldn’t believe random bullshit people say without any evidence
So no one supports ice and they are just dumb cowards who let it happen
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.
38% of Americans support ICE ‘some’ or ‘a great deal’. For MAGA Republicans that skews to 91%.