Omaha police agreed this week to stop carrying gloves that can deliver electric shocks to students in the halls of Nebraska’s largest public school district.

The decision affecting most Omaha middle and high schools came after The Associated Press first revealed Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers the gloves, which are known as G.L.O.V.E.s or Generated Low Output Voltage Emitters. The devices have also been used in recent years by some jails.

Omaha Superintendent Matthew Ray requested that police working in the schools, known as school resource officers, stop using the gloves. Omaha Police agreed.

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    8 days ago

    face

    That’s a strange way to spell gun.

    That thing that make you strong and manly and AMERICAN.

    That, and the implied threat of violence because someone on the internet doesn’t agree with your opinion of how great America is?

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        7 days ago

        Literally impossible to tell the difference when it’s just a line of text on a webpage.

        That particular phrasing isn’t used as “a joke”.

        That’s why we typically use a “/s” to remove the ambiguity.

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          Just a hint for you, I’ve noticed a considerable uptick in the proportion of people taking my sarcasm literally, when I started hanging out on Lemmy instead of Reddit.