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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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Original Submission

• Re:Covid, riot and space travel ! (Score: 3, Interesting) by dw861 on Monday June 01 2020, @03:38AM

  by dw861 (1561) on Monday June 01 2020, @03:38AM (#1001589) Journal

  Is this a reference to Richard R Nelson's 1977 book, "The Moon and the Ghetto"?

  In a more recent 2011 follow-up piece, Nelson begins

  "IT HAS BEEN MORE THAN 30 years since the
  publication of my book, The Moon and the Ghet-
  to (Nelson, 1977), where I tried to highlight a
  nagging and puzzling social question. Why was it
  that a country that recently had accomplished the
  truly remarkable feat of sending a man to the moon
  and bringing him back to earth safely, had wiped out
  scourges like infantile paralysis, and more generally
  had achieved an historically unprecedented standard
  of living for the middle class, for some reason
  seemed unable to provide an effective education for
  ghetto kids, halt or significantly slow down the ris-
  ing cost of medical care, keep the air and water
  clean, or cut down on the incidence of drug addic-
  tion and drug-related crime?"

  Parent

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