ICE's Electric Shock Gloves

• 27:55Tim worries ICE's electric shock gloves will give people the wrong idea about the agency's intentions.
• 28:47The backstory: a meeting where someone proposed shock gloves as a humane alternative to shooting protesters in the face.
• 29:12Tim argues a secure border doesn't require a paramilitary group of untrained psychopaths grabbed from a backyard wrestling event.
• 30:16The gloves deliver up to 380 volts—more than three times a standard US power outlet—and ICE plans to spend $20 million on them.
• 30:40Tim questions who came up with the invention of electric shock gloves as a concept.
• 31:48The company name is "Compliant Technologies," which Tim finds absurdly ironic.
• 31:59The manual recommends avoiding use on the elderly, small children, pregnant women, and the severely handicapped—a list Tim finds preposterous.
• 33:08An additional officer must be present to restrain the subject, supposedly to avoid people getting the wrong idea about grabbing someone and shocking them.
• 33:46Lieutenant Butch Gallion—described by Tim as a Donkey Kong villain—explains the gloves deliver localized shocks to convince subjects to comply through pain.
• 34:44Tim expresses doubt that moving toward shock gloves is the right direction, noting that many modern cops aren't well-trained or physically fit enough to handle suspects without gadgets.

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