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Electric shock gloves already in use by police departments in Bellevue, Omaha

They have been used twice since officers received training on them at the beginning of the 2025-2026 school year, and are only in use at middle and high schools.

In one case at a high school, the officer used a glove on a student for "noncompliance."

In short, the purpose is to torture kids

Electric shock gloves already in use by police departments in Bellevue, Omahahttps://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/electric-shock-gloves-already-in-use-by-police-departments-in-bellevue-omaha/Open linkView original on slrpnk.net
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quokk.au

Only to be used in middle and high schools?

No place is good to use them, but that’s one of the worst.

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sopuli.xyz

I had one of these used on me at a hospital once. I was already fucking handcuffed to the bed so the guy had no reason to shock me other than he was power tripping. And since it was a glove, it was kinda stealthy. I don't think any of the medical staff present even knew that he was tazing me. It happened completely without warning, too.

And let me tell you, these things are worse than being tased by a normal taser. I don't know what kind of battery they have, but it was baaad. I literally pissed myself.

Pretty sure that guy violated some protocols and maybe the law, but no one cared. I yelled at him for it and he fucking tased me again.

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retrolemmy.com

Sounds like grounds for a lawsuit (against both the hospital, and whatever agency he worked for) if I were you. You were handcuffed & no danger, so that's cruel & unusual punishment right there.

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slrpnk.net

The problem is that they're designed to leave no mark, so it's really hard to prove in court that they were used. Perfect torture device.

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Uhhggg, didn't know that. Been too long to get a lawyer to force the hospital to save video footage? In this day and age, I'd find it hard to believe they didn't have cameras everywhere.

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That's weird, every time law enforcement uses a device like this, they have a good reason and no need to hide it. Right? RIGHT‽

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I've read that some models do keep a timestamp record of when they were used but I'm guessing wiping the records is trivial.

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In my county? Cops can beat the shit out of people spontaneously, and then arrest them for "assaulting an officer", and the best the court can do for you is divert your case through a mental health program.

No, I don't think the court will be much recourse in this...

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lemmy.world

Can anyone find another country on earth where they treat their own kids like literal cattle with shock prods?

How's that Freedom™ working out for you yanks? Are you free enough yet?

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My parents and grandparents used to tell me about how 50+ years ago in Spain, during the dictatorship of Franco, the shortie asshole fascist, physical punishment was the norm in schools which, considering the state of Magastan... it's more or less in line with what you'd expect from a retrograde fascist dictatorship.

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lemmy.world

Corporal punishment is still legal in 19 states according to a quick googling. I can't think of a country that didn't have physical punishment in public schools 50+ years ago.

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It's been illegal in Swedish schools since 1958, close to 70 years. Almost 50 years since it was made illegal also in the home (1979).

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fedinsfw.app

It's been copium for fifty years I think. America actually at one point used to be a decent place to live or emigrate to, and the fact that many people seeking asylum still seek it from the USA both horrifies me and saddens me, that they either have no clue how bad an idea that is, or they know and are still preferring to trade imprisonment, torture, death or worse for a different flavour of imprisonment, torture, death or worse instead of trying for literally any other country

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America actually at one point used to be a decent place to live or emigrate to

As long as you didn't have brown skin.

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lemmy.ca

I remember the claim that the introduction of tasers would mean police would be able to apprehend suspects instead of killing them. Turns out police carried on shooting suspects just as much as they ever did, and just started using the tasers to force compliance and enact summary corporal punishment rather than to defend themselves.

ACAB

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piefed.social

As far as I know this has not happened in all countries where they are used. USA police, as always, are a special kind of terrible.

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"cool, now we get to use 2 weapons on them instead of just 1. Thanks for the training!"

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For location context, this is a local news story from Nebraska. The Bellevue mentioned is Bellevue Nebraska, the Omaha suburb with around 60k people as of the 2020 census.

There are several other Bellevues with much larger populations, none of which are the subject of this story.

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If they get deployed everywhere quickly enough, they won’t be unusual.

No but really, that’s how the Supreme Court has ruled. It has to be both cruel and unusual. Once it’s common enough, it’s not unusual and becomes constitutional.

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Fun fact, the police can legally use weapons on us civies that would be illegal to use in war.

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DAE remember pink Floyd's timeless Another brink in the wall pt 2 with lyrics like "hey teachers leave those kids alone, but, hey police, please taze the piss out of the hooligans who can't eat pudding if they haven't eaten their meat."

i could be mis remembering

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It's so much easier to be an anarchist on the internet

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now there are thousands of people in jail for this, and people will recognize this and riot and restore balance to the world, of course

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You don't even need to do that just grab them back, shock will hit them.

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