• mickey [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    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.

    Peters said he expected the devices to be misused by a small number of employees, as with other policing technologies, but he said they are unlikely to cause injuries. He said it would be important for ICE to have robust policies and training in place.

    I don’t even feel like I need to comment on this overall news, but I’ve highlighted the parts that make me think the vendor knows 100% dead ass how these will be used in practice.

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      He does, and when people die it will be used to argue ICE needs more funding to pay for training for their overpriced murder toys be abuse they already spent the existing budget on murder toys