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Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday May 31 2020, @02:48AM   
from the eye-in-the-sky dept.

takyon writes:

Border Patrol flies anti-terrorism drone over Minneapolis protestors

Thousands of people took to the streets of Minneapolis on Friday to protest the death of George Floyd, a local black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck during an arrest. All the while, 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. CBP uses the drone in anti-terrorism operations by helping to identify and intercept potential terrorists and illegal cross-border activity.

Also at The Drive and Business Insider.

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• The U.S.A. caught a virus, and it died The U.S.A. caught a virus, and it died (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2020, @03:47AM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2020, @03:47AM (#1001275)

  no doubt from preexisting conditions..

  R.I.P. America the Beautiful

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• Re:The U.S.A. caught a virus, and it died (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2020, @04:34PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2020, @04:34PM (#1001410)

  I have a pull request, since it seems we need a 1.2 version:

  We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all people are created equal, that they are endowed by Nature with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among People, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that humankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of the Working Class; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present Bourgeois-Democratic System is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over the Working Class. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

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• Re:The U.S.A. caught a virus, and it died (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2020, @06:53PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2020, @06:53PM (#1001461)

  I was going to call it "Death of a Nation", but I checked and found out that some asshole from India already used it for his pro-Trump film.

  India, outside of Kerala, is one of the most corrupt countries on the planet, with criminal classism that the US, under Trump, aspires to be.

  "Not Trump is not enough!"

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