It's pretty clear to me that ICE will use these gloves on protesters, in addition to undocumented or suspected undocumented individuals. This must be stopped. If Democrats manage to take back one or both houses, all money allocated to ICE must be clawed back. We can decide what to do about ICE later but in the meantime, they need to be completely defunded so they can't harm anyone.
We need to keep reminding everyone, especially the ICE thugs and their masters that the legal penalties for defying ICE is NOT torture and murder. The legal penalities for using torture and murder are much more severe. How about everytime a glove is deployed, Holman and Markwayne get a jolt too?
Adrian, thank you so much for this piece! Ever since the news came out about these gloves, I've been dreading their deployment and all my concerns are addressed here. Great background and depth, as well as information on pushback from different entities. Praying the pushback is effective!
Well done Adrian. You've articulated my darkest fears of the poorly vetted, ill-trained, racist, sadistic recruits. ICE'S mere presence is an escalation with their aggressive approach, masked maurader appearance and angry tone yelling directions at their target. My heart hurts for what this regime has perpetrated on our humans -immigrants and citizens.
A fired taser leaves physical evidence traceable to the device. These gloves do not, though usage is recorded electronically. ICE hired Brouillette despite documented abuse allegations, and in July he killed a man who was not his target.
So ICE is purchasing gloves that leave no mark on the victim’s body and there is little chance of the public seeing this action. But ICE says it is to de-escalate any situation and those wearing them will be trained. Have I got a bridge to sell you! A civilian throw a wrapped sandwich, and is arrested for terrorist activity and the ICE agent perjured himself saying the food was all over him and he could smell the onions.
Two people, one mother of three and a nurse were shot to death. ICE says they were terrorists and deliberately tried to harm the agents. Video footage from many people and angles proved ICE was lying. The agent who killed a man in Maine recently had so many red flags he never should have been allowed near any firearm, much less been hired by DHS.
I don’t know how these people can look themselves in a mirror every day.
In my Substack feed I liked some videos showing people helping abused or sick animals so I see a lot of them now. It’s the people who abuse animals who move on to abusing humans.
What you wrote LeftCoastReader has been documented by studies for years. Unfortunately not enough people in positions to do something to stop this are listening.
I want the company that makes these gloves to be financially destroyed and the executives that approved this product and sell to masked federal thugs to have their reputations destroyed until they publicly recant. These gloves are obviously going to lead to people's deaths. Perhaps the company should receive polite phone calls letting them know the American people will know who is responsible when their product kills a person.
G.L.O.V.E. reminds me of the Flock cameras. When the companies that develop/market/sell them are confronted with (the entirely predictable) evidence of their abuse they throw their hands in the air, saying 'hey, we included a user manual! What more do you guys want from us?'
How can we expect these gloves to be used as they claim when the body cameras purchased have been turned on? Already the video from body cameras, even before ICE has been withheld unless the courts are involved. We know the cameras weren’t on in the murder of 2 innocent civilians. We can’t even be sure they weren’t turned on and videos withheld by lying about saying the cameras were off. Camera footage may exist that is denied, and how are we to know? Can a person about to be shocked say, “Wait, I have a pacemaker.”? Can an agent determine whether a woman is pregnant when in early stages like a month doesn’t know yet? “Wait, I may be pregnant.”. Can we know if they are used in detention centers and detainees threatened with punishment if they report it?
I predict that these things will result in more injuries, suppression of basic rights and deaths at the gloved hands of ICE thugs and goons. Sickening and disgusting.
The focus on “compliance” is pretty chilling to me. It’s a very different standard from whether someone is threatening the life of an officer, which is supposedly the threshold for lethal force these are presented as an alternative to.
The billionaires are very worried that regular people will come after them for their obscene wealth. Just as a comparison: 1 million seconds is 11 days and 1 billion seconds is 32 years.
No individual person should have a billion dollars, especially when there are more and more homeless people on the street. Wealth hoarding is psychopathy. Elon gets up in the morning and takes a shit just like the rest of us. He is no better than a homeless man.
It's pretty clear to me that ICE will use these gloves on protesters, in addition to undocumented or suspected undocumented individuals. This must be stopped. If Democrats manage to take back one or both houses, all money allocated to ICE must be clawed back. We can decide what to do about ICE later but in the meantime, they need to be completely defunded so they can't harm anyone.
We need to keep reminding everyone, especially the ICE thugs and their masters that the legal penalties for defying ICE is NOT torture and murder. The legal penalities for using torture and murder are much more severe. How about everytime a glove is deployed, Holman and Markwayne get a jolt too?
No control and moronic creeps.
Adrian, thank you so much for this piece! Ever since the news came out about these gloves, I've been dreading their deployment and all my concerns are addressed here. Great background and depth, as well as information on pushback from different entities. Praying the pushback is effective!
Well done Adrian. You've articulated my darkest fears of the poorly vetted, ill-trained, racist, sadistic recruits. ICE'S mere presence is an escalation with their aggressive approach, masked maurader appearance and angry tone yelling directions at their target. My heart hurts for what this regime has perpetrated on our humans -immigrants and citizens.
A fired taser leaves physical evidence traceable to the device. These gloves do not, though usage is recorded electronically. ICE hired Brouillette despite documented abuse allegations, and in July he killed a man who was not his target.
So ICE is purchasing gloves that leave no mark on the victim’s body and there is little chance of the public seeing this action. But ICE says it is to de-escalate any situation and those wearing them will be trained. Have I got a bridge to sell you! A civilian throw a wrapped sandwich, and is arrested for terrorist activity and the ICE agent perjured himself saying the food was all over him and he could smell the onions.
Two people, one mother of three and a nurse were shot to death. ICE says they were terrorists and deliberately tried to harm the agents. Video footage from many people and angles proved ICE was lying. The agent who killed a man in Maine recently had so many red flags he never should have been allowed near any firearm, much less been hired by DHS.
I don’t know how these people can look themselves in a mirror every day.
In my Substack feed I liked some videos showing people helping abused or sick animals so I see a lot of them now. It’s the people who abuse animals who move on to abusing humans.
What you wrote LeftCoastReader has been documented by studies for years. Unfortunately not enough people in positions to do something to stop this are listening.
I want the company that makes these gloves to be financially destroyed and the executives that approved this product and sell to masked federal thugs to have their reputations destroyed until they publicly recant. These gloves are obviously going to lead to people's deaths. Perhaps the company should receive polite phone calls letting them know the American people will know who is responsible when their product kills a person.
G.L.O.V.E. reminds me of the Flock cameras. When the companies that develop/market/sell them are confronted with (the entirely predictable) evidence of their abuse they throw their hands in the air, saying 'hey, we included a user manual! What more do you guys want from us?'
How can we expect these gloves to be used as they claim when the body cameras purchased have been turned on? Already the video from body cameras, even before ICE has been withheld unless the courts are involved. We know the cameras weren’t on in the murder of 2 innocent civilians. We can’t even be sure they weren’t turned on and videos withheld by lying about saying the cameras were off. Camera footage may exist that is denied, and how are we to know? Can a person about to be shocked say, “Wait, I have a pacemaker.”? Can an agent determine whether a woman is pregnant when in early stages like a month doesn’t know yet? “Wait, I may be pregnant.”. Can we know if they are used in detention centers and detainees threatened with punishment if they report it?
I predict that these things will result in more injuries, suppression of basic rights and deaths at the gloved hands of ICE thugs and goons. Sickening and disgusting.
I wonder how many of the people pushing back against these gloves use in Omaha schools would be okay with there use on (somebody else's) streets.
The focus on “compliance” is pretty chilling to me. It’s a very different standard from whether someone is threatening the life of an officer, which is supposedly the threshold for lethal force these are presented as an alternative to.
This is literally a comicbook-villain weapon—which is little on the nose, even for the Trump admin.
The billionaires are very worried that regular people will come after them for their obscene wealth. Just as a comparison: 1 million seconds is 11 days and 1 billion seconds is 32 years.
No individual person should have a billion dollars, especially when there are more and more homeless people on the street. Wealth hoarding is psychopathy. Elon gets up in the morning and takes a shit just like the rest of us. He is no better than a homeless man.
Nice analogy restating $$$ in terms of time.
Not to sound too Woke (1), but the obvious path to de-escalation is to abolish ICE.