California has banned them. Army experts trying them experienced so much pain they were “apprehensive” about further tests and were swapped for new personnel. In Nebraska, mothers are fighting to get the same electric shock gloves out of schools.
The devices have opened a new front in the national debate over force in schools: whether police assigned to protect students should be allowed to carry this tool that delivers an electric shock to gain compliance.
“The kids there are scared,” Katy Eilers said of Millard North High School in Omaha where her 16-year-old son is a student. “He’s scared he’s going to get shocked. He’s scared one of his friends is going to get shocked.”
