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InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 days ago

ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks

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AP Exclusive: ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks that are intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.
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    100% chance they’ll kill someone with a pacemaker if this gets deployed.

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      They will kill other people too. They’re going to use the highest setting in every situation every time. And I bet they’ll attack people en mass so the poor victim will get zapped a dozen times or more one after another. And then - of course - they’ll lie about everything. As usual - they will also claim they felt “their lives were in danger”.

      Maybe the dems will put forth a strongly worded bill called Pretty Please Don’t Electrocute Perps to Death, Ice.

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        Dems would make their bill more into a cute acronym that they think sounds really clever

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          EPIC ICE (Electrocuting Perps Isn’t Cool, ICE)

          Bleh. Well, I tired.

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            That’s spot-on. You even got Hillary pogging underneath you

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            hillgasm

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          I wanted to make a cute acronym but my mind doesn’t work that way. It might have taken me ages to come up with something only half-decent.

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        Maybe the dems will put forth a strongly worded bill called Pretty Please Don’t Electrocute Perps to Death, Ice.

        And the bill’s contents will involve increasing their funding and discussing maybe perhaps possibly spending some of it on a tiny bit of training for them, if they want to.

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      They are going to grab people by the head and shock them until their eyeballs sizzle. They already kill people who don’t have pacemakers using tazers.

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