What the sources add
Participants in a military exercise felt intense pain, stopped fighting immediately and feared additional exposures, according to an Army study.
Event intelligence
ICE electric-shock gloves procurement
2 connected story threads
Current state
ICE has signed a $16.7 million deal to acquire electric-shock gloves for officers, and a previously unreleased Army study found the devices caused intense pain and 'excessive' fear during a military exercise, adding to earlier concern from rights advocates.
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What changed
ICE signed a $16.7 million contract for electric-shock gloves, and a newly revealed Army study found the devices caused intense pain and 'excessive' fear in military subjects.
Earlier in this event US immigration agency plans to buy electric shock gloves, alarming rights groups
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Media reports
Guardian
Electric-shock gloves ICE plans to use inflicted intense pain in army study
Immigration enforcement agency has signed $16.7m deal for devices that induced ‘excessive’ fear in military subjects The electric-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. Immigratio…
CBS
Shock gloves bought by ICE cause intense pain, Army study says
Participants in a military exercise felt intense pain, stopped fighting immediately and feared additional exposures, according to an Army study.
