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…
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has entered into a $16.7 million contract for a new line of electric-shock gloves, which were subjected to an intense pain-inducing military exercise. The study, which has not been previously disclosed, revealed that the gloves were so effective in causing discomfort that participants stopped fighting immediately upon exposure.
The ICE agency was reportedly aware of these findings before finalizing the deal, as evidenced by records obtained by American Oversight and shared with the Associated Press.
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