Army study found shock gloves purchased by ICE cause pain, compliance and fear
The shock gloves immigration agents could soon use to control detainees and protesters worked so powerfully during a military exercise that participants felt intense pain, stopped fighting immediately and feared additional exposures, according to a previously unreleased Army study.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement leaders were aware of the findings before signing a $16.7 million contract to purchase 6,000 pairs of shock gloves in August, according to records obtained by the watchdog group American Oversight and shared with The Associated Press.
The shocks had a profound impact on Army employees who played the role of combative prisoners during the exercise, which took place at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas in October 2024. The participants, several of whom were large-statured men, stopped resisting seconds after officers applied shocks by touching gloves to their skin, and were left with “fatigue, soreness and excessive apprehensiveness to being shocked again,” the study found.
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I’d thought these outcomes were the intended purposes of applying the gloves to another human being.
that is the purpose.
The gloves aren't even designed to incapacitate, they're purely for pain compliance. for ESD's to actually incapacitate someone, the probes or contacts need to spaced sufficiently far apart to pass through major muscle groups, which is why taser models are only effective at certain ranges.
keep in mind the Army is not in the province of pain compliance. Their sole goal is to kill as efficiently and quickly as possible so things that don't actually do that ... well... not exactly something they're going to care about.
Yeah...
That's why they bought them after the trial...
The point of documenting it, is purchase orders like that are filled with people's names. Low rank people who would 100% snitch to avoid being the fall guys.
Even if they don't snitch, it's not hard to follow a chain of command.
And who exactly is going to "follow the chain of command" and do something about it? It's not as if we have an opposition party in the US. We have fascist and diet fascist
That’s why they bought them.
It allows them to use extreme violence that isn't as clearly visible.
It's a wonder tool for Nazis that prefer not to be called out.
Anyone who uses these gloves needs to be tried as a war criminal
...Wait. Is the top ICE disruption device about to be super soakers, garden hoses, and water balloons??
So $2,600 for 1 pair. Got it
I know what I'm getting with my $5000 check that's definitely in the mail
That's the at-cost price, but I can source them directly to your ICE department with logos embedded for only 10k a pair! Oh and by the way, if you don't order right now, Atlanta's ICE department wants to buy my whole stock.
Interesting science. 🤔
I have a hypothesis that these weapons, applied to "Immigration and Customs Enforcement Leaders" might cause the participants to "feel intense pain, stop hurting people immediately, perhaps urinate and/or defecate on the spot, fearing additional exposures while pleading like little bitches."
With a small loan of several million dollars, we could confirm our findings. I eagerly await our funding!
The USA truly is the world leader in standing up for and to human rights.
So this is just an aside but tasers generally have reduced efficacy when you wear layers, say a leather jacket, cotton flannel, undershirt, and say a tank top equivalent layer. While some of the reduction is certainly caused by the prongs not getting anchored I have to wonder if it'd work against these gloves.
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So do swords, you gonna buy those too?