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Alarm over $20m plan to supply ICE officers with electric-shock gloves (www.theguardian.com)
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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.

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[–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Meh half of Americans still support ICE and think it's necessary to lock people up for being "illegal"

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    half of Americans still support ICE

    Citation needed

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks 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?"

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I cant believe it

    Good, you really shouldn't believe random bullshit people say without any evidence

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    So no one supports ice and they are just dumb cowards who let it happen

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    38% of Americans support ICE 'some' or 'a great deal'. For MAGA Republicans that skews to 91%.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    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

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