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Shock gloves for shock troops

'Electric-shock gloves’ may soon be used against anyone resisting Trump’s ICE agents, but is there a broader agenda in play? A future roundup of draft resisters?

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Leo Hohmann
Aug 13, 2026
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ICE could soon outfit agents with The G.L.O.V.E., a device that delivers a brief electric shock intended to quickly subdue resisting individuals.

A proposed $20 million Homeland Security purchase would equip ICE agents with electric-shock gloves already used by some law enforcement and prison personnel to force compliance from resisting subjects.

The Department of Homeland Security plans to buy thousands of the gloves capable of zapping suspects with painful 380-volt shocks in a no-bid contract worth up to $20 million, according to federal government purchasing records first unearthed by the Associated Press.

I believe we have reason to be skeptical of the official government narrative, that ICE is going to buy these gloves solely for the purpose of detaining illegals.

If you look at the numbers, President Trump is deporting roughly the same number of illegals than Biden did and is on a pace to deport fewer than Obama did in his first two years in office.

Now 19 months into his presidency,…

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