ICE Plans to Spend $18 Million on Thousands of New Tasers
▻https://theintercept.com/2020/06/10/ice-weapons-contract-gear
As protests against police brutality sweep the U.S. and demands to defund police multiply, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is seeking thousands of new “conductive energy weapons” — what the general public commonly refers to as tasers — and training at a U.S. military base on how to use them. According to a recent contracting request, the immigration enforcement agency is willing to pay up to $18 million for new gear and training to bolster its Enforcement and Removal Operations division, a (...)
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