Border Czar Defends Shock Gloves for ICE Agents
· Telemundo McAllen (KTLM)
Tom Homan, the White House border czar, defended the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plan to equip its agents with gloves capable of delivering painful electric shocks, stating that it is a tool to help officers end confrontations without resorting to lethal force. 'It's another device to help someone comply when they are not,' Homan said Thursday during an interview on Fox News Channel's 'Fox & Friends.' 'You can't go from 0 to 100, right? And have the first thing you resort to be lethal force.' Homan's comments mark the first public statements from a Trump administration official in defense of ICE's plan to spend up to $20 million to acquire thousands of 'conductive distraction and de-escalation devices' for agents. The devices, known as G.L.O.V.E. (Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter), are manufactured by Compliant Technologies LLC, a company based in Lexington, Kentucky. They have been used in recent years by some jails and police departments.
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