1mo ago

An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house"

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1mo ago

An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house"

www.motherjones.com /politics/2025/06/los-angeles-ice-protests-helicopter/

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The helicopter itself made these threats?
- Yeah, our government is like Cars.
- Don't know, but it's very easily done via LRAD. which the LAPD is known to have a "unknown quantity" of.
  Note it's secondary usage as a "sonic weapon". [Self defense tips] (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3sqIvak-4Ek)
  
  "So right off the bat I just wanted to say that if for some reason you think I shouldn't be helping protestors protect themselves from non-lethal weapons, I don't fucking care."
  Gotta love this for guy saying exactly what he means.
  
  Also : possible to redirect the sound toward the emitter using a parabolic object. Video on the 'tubes.
“This is a chilling statement,” he told Mother Jones. “Even if it were a joke, it was clearly designed to make the public afraid to exercise its First Amendment rights to protest and to hold government officials, including LAPD officers, accountable for their actions.”
Fuck this timeline. Resist. They don't have enough people to get to us all unless we are compliant.
- They don’t have enough people to get to us all unless we are compliant.
  This is incorrect. They absolutely have enough people to monitor the feeds for detected people and collect people up individually after the fact, which is exactly what the speakers/statements are alluding to.
  This is why "AI" bullshit is bullshit. This is why cameras on literally every traffic light is bad. This is what a lot of people have been screaming since 9/11. With the TSA and other organizations collecting information all willy nilly.
Remember the government will profile you and harass you until you become the image they profiled you as.
I was a juror on a trial where a camera was used to record a purported crime from a helicopter. The camera quality was no joke, I could make out the individual buttons on the guy’s shirt. I don’t doubt they could ID people from the chopper.
Out of sheer curiosity, what kinds of rounds could feasibly take down a helicopter? Is .50 cal the minimum?
- A few cheap laser pointers from Walmart or the discount store and that thing will either be landing immediately, leaving the AO, or crashing violently.
  But, you know, you should never do this. Or whatever I'm supposed to say here to prevent the secret police from kicking my door in.
  
  I don't think there is anything to prevent that. So might as well say as much as you can before they snatch away the mic

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