The government is busting out the big guns to surveil protesters, according to trackers.
As Trump’s shock troops invade Los Angeles, his administration is using every tool at its disposal to attack and surveil the political protests taking place in the city’s streets. That apparently includes the use of a Predator drone, which 404 Media reports was spotted by an aviation tracker as it zoomed over the city.
The outlet notes that, over the weekend, an MQ-9 Reaper flew over the political protests happening in the city. Onlookers suspected the drone’s presence based on public flight data that picked up movements of a mysterious aircraft:
One aircraft with no callsign, making it initially difficult to determine its model or which agency it belongs to, flew above the areas of the protests in Paramount and downtown Los Angeles on Sunday. The data showed this aircraft flying in distinctive hexagonal patterns, and 404 Media observed it fly afterwards to the U.S.-Mexico border.
The problem with body cameras or camcorders is that they can be confiscated.
You have to decide before going to the protests if it’s more important for you to participate or more important to document. Each has its pros and cons and you might have the chance to do both, but you will need to prioritize one over the other when push literally comes to shove.
Decide your priorities and then adjust your OpSec accordingly.
They can be.
hence the warning about video = evidence.
but that also goes both ways. If you’re finding yourself in court under drummed up bullshit, and they happen to delete everything around the times they said you assaulted them… that’s a big fucking red flag, and it’s potentially exculpatory evidence. one may be tempted to get a camera that offloads through wifi or cell; but that’s a data trail, so you have to be careful there. (use VPN to set up access, or however that works.)
all that’s also true of cell phone video, etc.