ICE awards $16.7M contract for electric-shock gloves
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WASHINGTON — Despite growing criticism, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving ahead with plans to acquire electric-shock gloves, awarding a contract worth about $16.7 million to a Kentucky-based company, according to government documents published Thursday.
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A group of U.S. senators led by Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada is urging Immigration and Customs Enforcement to cancel plans to outfit officers with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has awarded a $16.7 million contract to purchase 6,000 pairs of gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks, saying officers would use them to control detainees and protesters who resist.
A group of U.S. senators is urging Immigration and Customs Enforcement to cancel plans to outfit officers with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks.
ICE moved forward with the purchase despite opposition from civil rights advocates and Democratic members of Congress, who said ICE officers cannot be trusted to use them appropriately.
A group of mostly Democratic senators pressed for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to not use gloves that can electrically shock people in a Thursday letter. In the letter addressed to ICE Acting Director David Venturella, the senators said that they were writing “to express deep concern ab…
ICE has granted a $16.7 million no-bid contract for 6,000 gloves that can deliver electric shocks, a new use-of-force tool that the agency claims will help officers control resisting detainees.
ICE will soon be using the same electric shock gloves that are already in use at the Tarrant County Jail. ICE shock glove purchase ICE awarded a $16.7 million contract to Compliant Technologies LLC, a Kentucky-based firm that manufactures GLOVES, which stands for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter…
Rights groups and Democrats are warning that ICE agents are unfit to use the shock gloves responsibly. Since US President Trump's crackdown on immigration, several people have been killed during ICE raids across the US.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement granted a $16.7 million contract to Kentucky-based manufacturer Compliant Technologies to purchase 6,000 electric shock gloves over the next six months. The Department of Homeland Security said the devices would be distributed to Enforcement and Removal Opera…
Despite growing criticism, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving ahead with plans to acquire electric-shock gloves, awarding a contract worth about $16.7 million to a Kentucky-based company, according to government documents published Thursday.
Despite growing criticism, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving ahead with plans to acquire electric-shock gloves, awarding a contract worth about $16.7 million to a Kentucky-based company, according to government documents published Thursday.
WASHINGTON — Despite growing criticism, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving ahead with plans to acquire electric-shock gloves, awarding a contract worth about $16.7 million to a Kentucky-based company, according to government documents published Thursday.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has awarded a $16.7 million contract for 6,000 pairs of electric shock gloves following reports that the agency would equip officers with […]
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