Omaha police agreed this week to stop carrying gloves that can deliver electric shocks to students in the halls of Nebraska’s largest public school district.

The decision affecting most Omaha middle and high schools came after The Associated Press first revealed Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers the gloves, which are known as G.L.O.V.E.s or Generated Low Output Voltage Emitters. The devices have also been used in recent years by some jails.

Omaha Superintendent Matthew Ray requested that police working in the schools, known as school resource officers, stop using the gloves. Omaha Police agreed.

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[–] 238 points 2 months ago (43 children)

American culture seems to have nothing left in it besides the layers of violence.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago* (7 children)

    Nothing left? Brother it had and has nothing else.

    It was started on the principles of "I moved here and now I own the land because god told me so, now stand still while I genocide your entire nationality"

    Moved to "I own you because someone brought you here on a boat and I need someone to work the fields."

    Moved to "You may have civil rights but we make all the drugs and write the laws"

    Moved to "Be free and happy, go do acid and don't look too closely at the vague yet menacing government agents wiretapping your homes, they are here for your safety"

    Moved to "Serial killers are everywhere (don't look too closely at them, either. Dont want you seeing their badges)"

    Moved to "We need agents everywhere watching everything, and Guantanamos in multiple locations because terrurists."

    Its a long line of bloody murder stretching all the way back to colonialism (and beyond!)

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    [–] 65 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    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.

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    [–] 60 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    ...stop?

    Why the fuck did they ever start?

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  • [–] 52 points 2 months ago (17 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 months ago

    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.

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    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.

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    [–] 44 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    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

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    [–] 44 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    Why are there police in American schools? That's very weird.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    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

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    [–] 30 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    Parents who support this support it for "urban" schools. They don't believe it will ever be used in their white, suburban public schools.

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    [–] 29 points 2 months ago

    G.L.O.V.E. sounds like something Vault-Tec would make and sell

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    [–] 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Kids need to start wearing chain mail over their bulletproof vests

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    Awesome that they have to ask politely and the police get to decide.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Can't even say "enough internet for today" because I just opened Lemmy and saw this.

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    [–] 14 points 2 months ago

    Well that didn't take long.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (12 children)

    gloves codenamed G.L.O.V.E.s

    supervillain ahh invention

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago* (7 children)

    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.

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    [–] 12 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    Kill 'em all.

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