Nebraska’s largest school district asks police to stop using electric shock gloves on students - NBC News

Omaha's police chief and mayor issued a joint statement Monday defending the gloves, saying officers had used them twice during the last school year, including inside a program serving students with learning deficits. The statement called the gloves "the safest use-of-force option in the rare times when it is used." That defense did not hold long.

Superintendent Matthew Ray pushed back, asking school resource officers to stop carrying the gloves entirely. By late Tuesday, Omaha Police agreed.

For families with kids in Omaha's schools, the episode raises a harder question the agreement does not fully answer: what happens the next time an officer decides a situation calls for a force option that parents and administrators did not know was being carried in the building? The gloves were used on students twice before anyone outside the department apparently raised a flag.

Two uses. Two students. One involved a program specifically designed for kids with learning deficits, the detail that likely accelerated the community pushback and the superintendent's formal request.