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> This is a nothingburger because no US law enforcement officer will get close enough to a suspect to touch them [...] Of course they will. They routinely rest
by dinfinity 2mo ago
> This is a nothingburger because no US law enforcement officer will get close enough to a suspect to touch them [...]
Of course they will. They routinely restrain and physically arrest people. Wrestling somebody to the ground is trivial with these.
> If you have to electrocute suspect, he is dangerous [...]
That is the whole point here: they will be used when they don't have to be, but when it is convenient for the agent. The casual fully unwarranted pepper spraying in Idiocracy was a funny joke until ICE agents started doing exactly that: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tPPQRb9TAhc https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tPPQRb9TAhc
- general1465 2mo ago> Wrestling somebody to the ground is trivial with these Not trivial at all. When you have normal zapper you have to avoid contact with targeted person e.g. holding them with one hand and stunning them with other will electrocute you back. That's why tasers firing electrodes are so common while normal handheld zapper never caught up. With these gloves you don't even have a reach of a handheld zapper. Suspect can touch your face while you are about to electrocute him via gloves and you will knock yourself from fight. Now imagine that suspect is on PCP so electrocuting him will have limited effect while it will have full effect on you.
- dinfinity 2mo agoYou are ignoring the rest of my comment and again reasoning from an extreme situation (these are not replacements for tasers or guns). Look at that YouTube video. That is the level of 'resistance' that will lead to being electrocuted by badly trained authoritarian agents.