Border Patrol Drone Used In Anti-Terror Ops Flies Over Minneapolis Protestors

[jayfish]

Source: Ars Technica

As thousands of people took to the streets of Minneapolis on Friday to protest a white officer killing an unarmed black man by kneeling on his neck during an arrest, a Customs and Border Patrol drone kept a careful eye on the unfolding unrest.

The drone, using the tracking signal CBP104, took off from Grand Forks Airforce Base at 9:08 am Central Daylight Time and shortly afterward headed directly to Minneapolis, this feed from live flight tracking service FlightAware showed. The drone then circled the city six times from about 10:45 until noon. The aircraft maintained an altitude of about 20,000 feet.

Grand Forks AFB is the home of the Air Force's 319th Reconnaissance Wing. It is also a site Customs and Border Patrol personnel use for takeoff and landing of the Predator B unmanned aircraft system. CPB uses the drone in anti-terrorism operations by helping to identify and intercept potential terrorists and illegal cross-border activity.

The Minneapolis protests come after video footage emerged of white Minneapolis Police Department officer Derek Chauvin earlier this week kneeling on the neck of black man George Floyd while he was handcuffed and on the ground. Floyd can be seen gradually becoming motionless as Chauvin and three other officers ignore bystanders’ shouts to stop. People in Minneapolis and cities across the US have taken to the streets to protest the violence in the four days that have passed.

Read more: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/05/border-patrol-drone-used-in-anti-terror-ops-flies-over-minneapolis-protestors/

[Firestorm49]

1. Anybody have a spare signal jammer?

[TheRickles]

2. Some more troubling video - an agent provocateur in action

https://goldenageofgaia.com/2020/05/29/this-is-what-a-false-flag-looks-like/

[ace3csusm]

3. Something Not Right here

They are trying to start a race war....

[sandensea]

6. Surprise, surprise.

Please consider posting this as a stand-alone thread, Rickles.

This should be headline news - but, of course, won't be.

[ace3csusm]

9. Yes he should

Everyone should be seeing this

[sandensea]

10. I tell you, if it isn't within an hour or so I'll take the liberty and post it myself

It's much too important to be left as a mere reply.

[TheRickles]

11. Please go ahead and post it as its own thread - I'm not sure how to do that. Thanks!

[sandensea]

14. Thank YOU, The Rickles.

Here's the thread: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213504609

Let me know if anything's missing.

[dware]

15. Hmmmm, very interesting.

Thank you for posting this sandensea, it really opens my eyes.

Gotta go grab some grub from the truck stop diner I'm at right now, will be back later.
Peace out!!!!

[sandensea]

17. Never a dull moment in the Drumpf era.

Glad you liked it, and found it informative dware.

Rickles did some great research legwork there.

May that miscreant be found, and prosecuted (though I doubt it).

[The Mouth]

7. Holy fuck

[Jedi Guy]

16. Looks like Black Bloc. Those guys will use anything as an excuse to break shit. N/T

[LiberalFighter]

4. What authority did they have to do that?

It is I would think not within the parameter of their agency.

[dware]

5. It may have been supporting the NG troops that were being deployed.

The commanding officer may have requested drone surveillance for his troops.

Of course, I'm just speculating.

[ace3csusm]

8. Can you Image if these protesters where armed like the Reopen Protesters

They already sent the drone, they would have add tanks, rocket launchers...etc

[NotHardly]

12. No Predator ever needed additional help from anything or anyone... it predates (kill searches)

thus, its name, Predator. Just remember that they are sending military predator drones over the heads of American citizens ... we have crossed the Rubicon and into fascist territory and the reality that it meant decades ago and today. They always start with the hated groups first (the ill, the deprived, women, persons of color, the political who call them out for their lies).

Trump intends this harm, this damage, these points of destruction... its the only thing he and his Republican handlers have left... they intend us to live under their thumb, under their guns, and under fear for the rest of our lives while they party with the boys in the cabana.

[JCMach1]

13. Pictures... Trying to identify protesters

The resolution and capabilities of these drones would boggle your mind.

I knew a techie on the projects that built the opticals systems.