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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.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by hemocyanin on Sunday May 31 2020, @04:16AM (1 child)
On the upside, all of the riots are a reasonably good experiment for whether we can reopen the economy, If hospitals are overrun with CV19 starting 2 to 3 weeks out in these riot cities, we'll know we're screwed. If they don't have a big bump, maybe we can start moving forward again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2020, @08:15PM
Guess you haven't seen what has happened in Mississippi and Georgia, the hospitals are being overrun. In some cases, they are literally sending people to hospitals 90 minutes away to find open ICU beds.