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posted by janrinok on Sunday August 07 2016, @09:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the do-you-see-what-I-see? dept.

Gizmodo reports that the FBI has responded to an ACLU FOIA request by releasing 18 hours of surveillance video from the protests in Baltimore that followed the death of Freddie Gray in 2015. From the article:

According to the ACLU, the videos are all shot from traditional piloted aircraft. But as the ACLU points out drones can be seen in many of the videos. It's unclear if these drones were piloted by police, protesters, curious onlookers, or all of the above.

The videos, which all date from April 29, 2015 to May 3, 2015, switch from infrared (IR) to traditional camera mode and zoom in at various times -- though even at the maximum zoom it doesn't appear that any faces are clearly discernible. All 18 hours of raw video are available at the FBI's website. [The article contains the link.]

[...] After the protests occurred it was revealed in October 2015 that FBI planes using night vision and registered under fake businesses had been operating around the protest locations. This is the first time that footage from those planes has been released. As the ACLU notes, it's not clear what the FBI's records retention policy for videos like these might be and how they could be used for future investigations.

In response to an ACLU Freedom of Information Act request, the FBI has released more than 18 hours of video from surveillance cameras installed on FBI aircraft that flew over Baltimore in the days after the death of Freddie Gray in police custody in 2015. The videos, which were released to the ACLU before being posted online by the FBI this week, offer a rare and comprehensive view of the workings of a government surveillance operation. While the release of the footage addresses some questions, it leaves others unanswered.

https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/fbi-releases-secret-spy-plane-footage-freddie-gray-protests


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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday August 08 2016, @06:09PM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday August 08 2016, @06:09PM (#385399) Journal

    And they will be right up until the police do unto you. Then you'll have a change of what-passes-for-a-heart reeeeeeeeal quick. I guaran-goddamn-tee it. Unless, of course, what your "friends" do to you ends up punching your ticket to Hell.

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  • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Monday August 08 2016, @06:40PM

    by jmorris (4844) on Monday August 08 2016, @06:40PM (#385412)

    Getting into a fight with the police is a pointless exercise of K vs K violence. My enemy is the r-selected 'rabbits' in power. On the other hand, the rabbits love the idea of getting cops killed, especially in a fight with other enemies. That is a no-lose scenario for them. They don't even mind too much if some of their own low level troops get killed off in a fight with cops because, again, it is pretty much all upside for those in power.

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday August 08 2016, @07:08PM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday August 08 2016, @07:08PM (#385420) Journal

      ....aaaaaaaaand there goes the point, sailing over your head at a leisurely Mach 1.6 as usual. I am beginning to think there is something actually physically wrong with your cerebral wiring; you seem not to be capable of understanding why something is a problem unless and until it happens to you. Also, this is a gross mis-application of the concept of K/r selection dynamic, on a level with the term "social Darwinism."

      I really wish being wrong were painful. Sure, I might get a headache now and then but you'd be rolling on the ground in agony as your blood boiled in your skin...

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