AP Exclusive: ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
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The newspeak is strong with this one.
I know folks love crapping on journalism but that's a quote from the notice linked to in the story and the first paragraph explicitly describes them in real terms. Using that in quotes highlights how the government is obfuscating their purpose.
Definitely not crapping on the journalist here.
Big, steaming turds for whoever is pushing this insanity though.
When do we non-americans intervene in the american slide into fascism? They've stopped being our allies and are now just presenting as the terrorist nation it always was to the global south.
We need to acknowledge that they're a terrorist nation and sanction accordingly.
With the way things are going we'll be fighting our own fascism at home soon enough. It's basically a transmissible mental-illness, spread through the disinformation and propaganda optimised by big tech oligarchs and their self-serving algorithms.
It is a memetic virus that tells idiots that they're special.
And it would appear its all being funded by the same people.
On the inside right? To stop them committing crimes against humanity?
Alright, here's my haphazard attempt to figure these things out.
Electricity flows through a path of least resistance, in this case: finger to finger, but through your body nonetheless. That being said, this is not a full-body shock, it only flows through the point in which skin is in contact with the glove at both points. I'll mention the importance of this later.
Now, the parameters of the electricity are where the rubber meets the road, it can be a strong momentary impulse, or a weaker sustained current. A strong, sustained current is likely too risky for ICE agents, because you know damn well they're gonna shock themselves eventually, and complain to their superiors. That being said, the strong impulse current would likely fall under the same umbrella. This leaves us with a weaker, sustained current as the theorized output.
Under those parameters, the goal is seemingly the following: Grasping an individual on exposed skin, the immediate area around the hand will be subject to a sustained low-power electricity. This will not incapacitate, yet it will contribute to overstimulation and moving the limb will be inhibited. In my interpretation, it seems likely the idea is to grab an exposed arm to make for an easier time in bringing someone to the ground. May not be the Galvaknuckles, but I'd sure panic if my arm started throbbing when someone grasped it.
My money says this thing contacts someone's face within the first week of deployment.
Well that's terrifying
did no one watch spiderman? do we really need the shocker irl?
Oh, so the cruelty wasn’t enough already?
Somehow be wet so when they grab you it also shocks them or make them wet with a water balloon or something?
Being wet yourself'll just reduce your skin's insulation, pumping yourself with more current. Getting them wet likely won't bridge a gap between them and the gloves though. Regardless, it isn't gonna be a whole body shock. Electricity tends towards the path of least resistance, which would be from one terminal/finger to another terminal/finger. The only goal I could see here being to overstimulate a target, because any other goal this could achieve just seems too flawed, even for ICE standards.
Yup, I should have said use water somehow instead but I am old and silly.