They have been used twice since officers received training on them at the beginning of the 2025-2026 school year, and are only in use at middle and high schools.
In one case at a high school, the officer used a glove on a student for “noncompliance.”
In short, the purpose is to torture kids
For location context, this is a local news story from Nebraska. The Bellevue mentioned is Bellevue Nebraska, the Omaha suburb with around 60k people as of the 2020 census.
There are several other Bellevues with much larger populations, none of which are the subject of this story.