Alex Pretti didn't have to die.
Tom Homan said it plainly on Fox & Friends Thursday morning.
If ICE had these gloves in January, that confrontation in Minneapolis might have ended very differently – and the Left knows it.
What the G.L.O.V.E. Actually Does
ICE is spending up to $20 million on the Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter – a standard-looking patrol glove that an officer can charge with electricity by pressing a switch on the wrist.
No prongs. No drawn weapon. No gun.
Contact with skin delivers a sharp pain that one expert compared to a bee sting, stopping the moment the glove lifts away.
Police departments and jails across more than 20 states have been using it for years.
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Nelson County, Kentucky Jailer Justin Hall told reporters his facility adopted the gloves four years ago for situations where inmates refuse to comply.
He's taken the shock himself more than ten times in training.
"It's just a safer way," Hall said. "It's safer on the inmate. It's safer on the staff. And most of the time we get compliance."
Compliant Technologies says no documented injuries have resulted from the device.
The Democrats Who Want More Deaths, Not Fewer
The ACLU just called the G.L.O.V.E. "a recipe for harm to the public."
Stop and think about what that means.
In January, Border Patrol agents shot and killed Alex Pretti during a confrontation in Minneapolis.
Before that, ICE shot and killed Renee Good when she drove her car into an officer.
Democrats used both deaths to hammer the Trump administration for months – and those deaths were genuinely useful to their cause.
Now comes a less-lethal tool that could prevent exactly those outcomes.
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Tom Homan cut straight to it on Fox & Friends: "You can't just go from 0 to 100, right, and the first thing you go for is lethal force."
He's right.
The G.L.O.V.E. fills the gap between verbal commands and a drawn firearm – the same space Tasers and pepper spray occupy, but designed for close contact without requiring an officer to reach for a weapon.
The Left Runs This Play Every Time
The ACLU has been fighting less-lethal tools for decades – and the playbook never changes.
When Tasers became standard police equipment in the early 2000s, the ACLU published reports calling them dangerous weapons that caused unjustified pain and opened the door to abuse.
Amnesty International called Tasers "brutal weapons" that shouldn't exist.
The Left pointed to more than 500 deaths linked to Taser deployments since 2001 and argued the tool was simply too dangerous to trust in officers' hands.
Now Tasers are standard issue everywhere and nobody serious calls them torture devices.
Every single time law enforcement adopts a less-lethal option – pepper spray, rubber bullets, Tasers – the same organizations declare it dangerous, call it excessive, and demand a ban.
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Every single time, the tool becomes routine and the outrage evaporates.
Now they're running the identical play against a glove that has been used in jails for four years without a single documented injury, and that Homan said won't reach the field until ICE finishes building out the training program.
The Democrat Party's entire immigration playbook depends on confrontations looking bad for Trump.
Compliant arrests that end without incident don't fuel the fundraising emails.
Fewer deaths mean fewer protest mobs.
A tool that keeps officers and detainees both safer is a direct threat to the cause.
Tom Homan is trying to protect his officers and the people they detain.
The ACLU is trying to stop him.
Now you know who to believe.
Sources:
- John Nolte, "ICE to Receive Gloves that Deliver Electric Shock to De-Escalate Confrontations," Breitbart, August 12, 2026.
- Dylan Lovan and Ryan J. Foley, "White House Border Czar Defends ICE Electric Shock Gloves as Tools to Avoid Deadly Force," Associated Press, August 13, 2026.
- "ICE Plans to Give Officers Gloves That Can Deliver Electric Shocks," CBS News, August 12, 2026.