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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    7 hours ago

    Ah yes, it’s the peoples fault that the police are hateful. Amazing take. We are too mean to them, it’s our fault, we deserve it. Truly a masterpiece of human thought. Thank you for sharing.

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      7 hours ago

      That’s an oversimplification to mischaracterize my point, but if you’ve decided to nope out of critical thought on the matter, I wouldn’t stop you if I could.