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ICE awards $16.7M contract to buy 6,000 pairs of gloves that deliver electric shocks
CBS News and WVEC 13News Now (Tegna, Norfolk) describe the same event in different terms.
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What happenedICE entered into a no-bid contract to purchase the gloves from Compliant Technologies LLC, a Kentucky-based firm that manufactures them.
The headline splitThe left frames it as "ICE grants $16.7 million contract to buy thousands of electric shock gloves". The center frames it as "ICE awards $16.7M contract to buy 6,000 pairs of gloves that deliver electric shocks".
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Left / center-leftICE grants $16.7 million contract to buy thousands of electric shock gloves
CBS News · Center-left · News report
CenterICE awards $16.7M contract to buy 6,000 pairs of gloves that deliver electric shocks
WBIR10 (Tegna, Knoxville) · Center · News report
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ICE grants $16.7 million contract to buy thousands of electric shock gloves
ICE has granted a $16.7 million no-bid contract for 6,000 gloves that can deliver electric shocks, a new use-of-force tool that the agency claims will help officers control resisting detai...
