American culture seems to have nothing left in it besides the layers of violence.
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Officers were expected to give warning before using the gloves and then touch the person for up to 15 seconds while the electric shock was delivered, the statement said.
According to the manual, these things (the Gen 5 gloves) are discharging 324–362V at 0.7–1.2A and the Gen 4s 210–380V at 0.9–1.5A.
That's around half a kW for you folks keeping track at home. Better hope little Timmy's heatlh class is teaching him what a regular sinus rhythm is.
I hope any officer who uses that on a child gets a prostate exam with a G.L.O.V.E. equipped.
Sorry gen 5? There are five generations of these things and we're just hearing about it now?
...stop?
Why the fuck did they ever start?
They shouldn't have shock gloves in the first place.
In fact, I will go so far to say that police should be unarmed by default. They can carry a baton, but a remote operator has to give the okay to unlock the baton for extension. A squad car can have a shotgun with rubber slugs, but the trunk also has to be remotely unlocked. Police should also receive permission from an operator for turning off their camera.
Bluntly, the police cannot be trusted with power.
Public site, 100% uptime, every weapons pull listed in real time. They put those gloves on, it's noted, they pull the baton out, it's listed. They draw their guns it's listed. Transparency would be a good start. Body camera footage should also be available to the people in the videos automatically in identification.
This is America.
Why does this country keep worshipping a cruel and unnecessarily violent police force in every corner of its society? You'd think enough regular folks have had a bad enough experience to want to reign it in over time.
Oh, that's easy. The draconian measures that I support are to be used on them, not me and my folk!
have you seen the copanganda, military worship that goes on media/films thats how they reinforce that control.
This is why phones are banned In schools. Otherwise we'd have video of cops tasing studnrts with a weapon straight out of a Ratchet and Clank game
Why are there police in American schools? That's very weird.
It’s so there’s someone there to easily arrest black kids for doing normal kid stuff.
Having police in schools stops school shooters... /s if it isn't fucking obvious
Stopping fights, looking for drugs or weapons, giving kids a head start on a life full of imprisonment; you know, the same safety regulations every sane nation would have 🙄 Growing up with parts of my childhood in the US private and public educational system, it became very clear very quick that the cops didn't really give a single shit about me or saving my life if something happened. They were there to 'keep an eye on the troubled, inner-city kids' i.e. "scare and threaten the minority* kids"
*I say minority but my school was actually pretty diverse, all things considered, though the black kids definitely had a slim majority
Parents who support this support it for "urban" schools. They don't believe it will ever be used in their white, suburban public schools.
What the fuck is this
It's called America, the land of guns and idiots.
The Associated Press first revealed Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers the gloves
I wonder if spelling it out really did make people overlook the fact we're talking about ICE here
No. It's just the AP style to not say an acronym without ever saying what it means
Kids need to start wearing chain mail over their bulletproof vests
Can't even say "enough internet for today" because I just opened Lemmy and saw this.
gloves codenamed G.L.O.V.E.s
supervillain ahh invention
For those who don't spend all their time online, "ahh" is a substitute (or euphemism?) for "ass". Kids have taken to say things like "ahh" instead of "ass" and "unaliving" for "suicide", and "funk" for "fuck", "epistomegacy" for "active clown threat", "rat intestine" for "rat intestine" and who even knows what else!
Well I for one am sick and tired of it and that's all I have to say on the matter.
It's such a perfect dystopian weapon. Like you can imagine someone being scared out of their mind of being touched by a cop because of this, which is then "resisting" and gives them card blanche to brutalize them.
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