calamity

ICE spent the last year showing this country they are too quick to use force. Now they will be able to deploy electric shocks with the slight push of a button that maybe nobody else can see them do. Introducing gloves that can so easily be used to deliver terrible pain in encounters is a recipe for harm to the public.

— Jenn Rolnick Borchetta, deputy project director on policing at the American Civil Liberties Union, commenting on ICE plans.

The idea of arming ICE agents with limited training and a recent track record of misusing force and using it way too much, to hand them this kind of weapon is reckless and surprising.

— Naureen Shah, director of policy and government affairs for immigration with the ACLU

We are talking about the biggest fire incident we have had in the forests and on the fields in the last 30 years.

— Said Steffen Zenner, Mayor of Plauen (CDU), about the scale of the forest fire in Plauen

The act was treacherous and carried out with a publicly dangerous means (the black VW Golf); D.'s conduct was grossly negligent and grossly in violation of traffic laws.

— Spoken by the Offenbach public prosecutor Philip Ries in the murder trial of Edin D.

After the past extremely polarized years, there is no blaming and no dispute over competence. Everyone is pitching in.

— Kristin Wesemann, head of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Bogota, said this regarding reactions after the earthquake in Colombia.