Indian American Congressman Shri Thanedar and two others have asked the U.S. government to immediately halt the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) plan to procure electric shock gloves for its officers.
The Department of Homeland Security described the gloves, capable of delivering painful electric shocks, as a “de-escalation device. “Under Trump, ICE has hired unqualified officers and agents and rushed them through training programs with reduced use of force instruction. ICE is facing criticism for use of aggressive tactics as it carries out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
“Given ICE’s horrific record of violence against the public, the agency must not be allowed to equip its officers and agents with a device that demands both significant training for and restraint by its users,” Mr. Many of these officers and agents should not have been hired at all, much less let loose on American streets with a badge, a gun, and electric shock gloves,” the lawmakers said. Thanedar, Bennie Thompson and Lou Correa said in the letter to Mullin on Friday.
