DHS Flew Two Surveillance Aircraft over Breonna Taylor Protests • Hacker News Board

Re: DHS Flew Two Surveillance Aircraft over Breonna Taylor Protests

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Post by lawnchair_larry » Fri, Sep 25, 2020, 4:07 PM UTC

metadatabad wrote: post #2

DHS was already in massive trouble with congress for stuffing people into unmarked vans like this was a 3rd-world country. Not to mention the whole department is unconstitutional.

That’s nonsense. Federal police arrested people committing arson against federal buildings and processed according to due process. Legal and expected. Makes no difference if the vehicles were unmarked.

Re: DHS Flew Two Surveillance Aircraft over Breonna Taylor Protests

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Post by lawnchair_larry » Fri, Sep 25, 2020, 4:09 PM UTC

This seems like a reasonable way to deal with riots. I don’t understand the outrage, unless people are under the false impression that these were “peaceful protests”.

Re: DHS Flew Two Surveillance Aircraft over Breonna Taylor Protests

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Post by joshstrange » Fri, Sep 25, 2020, 4:56 PM UTC

lawnchair_larry wrote: post #12

This seems like a reasonable way to deal with riots. I don’t understand the outrage, unless people are under the false impression that these were “peaceful protests”.

I'm not sure what else you call a massive protest where only a VERY small handful of people are inciting violence? Unless, of course, we want also want to talk about "lawful police"...

Re: DHS Flew Two Surveillance Aircraft over Breonna Taylor Protests

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Post by nodule7 » Fri, Sep 25, 2020, 5:37 PM UTC

These protests prove how powerful the mind control of social media can be. It could be that they are using these black people to normalize surveillance and discourage protests on legitimate issues. Why would anyone protest e.g. hyperinflation if it meant they would be compared to antifa.