In a moment when the boundaries of state power over human bodies are being actively redrawn, the United States government has committed up to $28 million to equip immigration officers with electric shock gloves — devices that deliver pain on contact and were designed, their makers say, to calm confrontation. The acquisition arrives amid intensified enforcement operations and growing public unease about the treatment of migrants, many of whom belong to the very populations the manufacturer warns should not be subjected to the technology. History has long shown that tools of force, once placed i
ICE to Deploy Electric Shock Gloves Despite Abuse Concerns
A 43-year-old man died in 2024 after being shocked 27 times with the gloves and 13 times with a taser; multiple other injury lawsuits filed alleging unnecessary pain and health complications.