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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: 5, Interesting) by Pav on Sunday May 31 2020, @09:02AM (2 children)
Perhaps they can figure out who this guy [youtube.com] is (though I suspect they won't). He appears to be an agent provocateur , and a couple of people say they recognise the guy... a police officer. Granted, this was his ex wife and her friend... so there's that. The precinct he's from also denies it's him, and apparently he has an alibi.
Still, I wonder if that umbrella might have been a way to make the guy more trackable in realtime from the air.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2020, @04:36PM
More trackable, less identifiable in realtime from the air.
(Score: 2) by helel on Monday June 01 2020, @12:44AM
His alibi is that he was on the clock at the time. Seems like a pretty piss poor alibi to me as nobody was accusing him of doing this on his day off.