Tied up and tortured: Israel using US-made electroshock weapons on Palestinian detainees

Investigation suggests American company Axon still supplies Israel with Taser weapons despite evidence they have been used to torture prisoners…

 https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/oct/22/israel-us-made-electroshock-weapons-palestinian-detainees-axon-taser

 

Alarm over $20m plan to supply ICE officers with electric-shock gloves

ICE “is putting these [gloves] in the hands of an agency that has dropped its hiring standards, its training, its background requirements in its hiring spree”, Sarah Mehta, deputy director of government affairs in the equality division of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), said. 

“We’re already seeing the consequences of that in lawless and violent enforcement actions in our streets,” she told the Guardian. 

“What’s really terrifying is use of them on the streets, potentially to terrify people, to create a chilling effect. But what’s also scary is what [their] uses will be where we can’t see them. We don’t know how they’re going to be used in places like Fort Bliss,”she added, referring to the largest migrant detention facility in the US, where allegations of abuse are legion. The government denies claims of any inhumane conditions...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/24/ice-officers-electric-shock-gloves

 

Call me crazy but I don’t think we should be electric shocking kids,

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/L0XargldPYo

 

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AP report: ICE plans to give its officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks | PBS News

Message Body The manufacturer warns the device should not be used as punishment, against people merely exhibiting "verbal defiance or belligerence" or on high-risk populations such as children, pregnant women or elderly or disabled people. 

Jenn Rolnick Borchetta, deputy project director on policing at the American Civil Liberties Union, said the public should have no confidence that ICE officers will use the devices appropriately. She questioned why the devices would be necessary for civil immigration enforcement and noted those getting shocked might have no advance warning. 

 "ICE spent the last year showing this country they are too quick to use force. Now they will be able to deploy electric shocks with the slight push of a button that maybe nobody else can see them do," she said. "Introducing gloves that can so easily be used to deliver terrible pain in encounters is a recipe for harm to the public."…

 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/ap-report-ice-plans-to-give-its-officers-gloves-that-can-deliver-painful-electric-shocks

 

ICE to spend up to $20m on gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks

According to manufacturer, shock ‘is usually effective in bringing individuals into compliance in less than three seconds’…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/11/ice-electric-shock-gloves