{"id":828325,"date":"2026-08-28T05:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T05:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/828325\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T05:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T05:30:12","slug":"ice-agents-in-us-to-be-equipped-with-pain-delivering-electric-shock-gloves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/828325\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE agents in US to be equipped with pain-delivering electric shock gloves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has awarded a US$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.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A notice published in a federal database Thursday said ICE entered into a no-bid contract to purchase the gloves from Compliant Technologies LLC, a Kentucky-based firm that manufactures them. The deal includes acquiring 6,000 of the devices along with support equipment and services over the next six months.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Civil rights advocates have said ICE officers already face criticism for their use of force with little oversight or accountability while enforcing President Donald Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">ICE published the notice hours after a group of US senators, led by Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, urged the agency to cancel its plan to buy the gloves. In a letter to ICE\u2019s acting director Thursday, Cortez Masto and 15 of her colleagues in the Democratic caucus questioned ICE\u2019s need for the devices.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe blatant and tragic misuse of force in Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis, Houston, Maine, and other locations around the country raises significant scepticism about the agency\u2019s professional capability to safely deploy a new tool that could be used to harm Americans without cause,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Federal agents conducting immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis in February. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cabb4181-e924-4390-b94f-8a7e531955b4_595de0ff.jpg\" title=\"Federal agents conducting immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis in February. Photo: AP\"\/>Federal agents conducting immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis in February. Photo: AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has awarded a US$16.7 million contract to purchase 6,000 pairs of gloves that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,37002,157,350873,36525,12,7095,2483,569,3031,10482,16950,1058,3,21,19,22,20,25,143801,168603,24],"class_list":["post-828325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-catherine-cortez-masto","tag-chicago","tag-compliant-technologies-llc","tag-department-of-homeland-security","tag-donald-trump","tag-houston","tag-ice","tag-kentucky","tag-los-angeles","tag-maine","tag-minneapolis","tag-nevada","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-us-senators","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}