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An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house" (www.motherjones.com)
submitted 4 days ago by AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Cool...

This one goes out to all the small government, privacy loving, Republicans out there, supposedly hating invasive big brother tactics and representing the values of the American heartland.

Would be much appreciated if you could have a word with your people about this.

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[–] arrow74@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I bring my phone. I likely won't be breaking any laws, and I can afford a lawyer. So yeah arrest me and waste the system's time. Just another data point they have to sort.

And if it gets to the point where none of that matters we were cooked anyway

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 28 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Lawyers operate in courts. We don’t have due process anymore.

[–] arrow74@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Then as I said we're already cooked. But also that is demonstrably false anyway. Our judiciary is under heavy threat, but still functioning

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 days ago

Barely functionning isn't good enough, it has to be beyond reproach but today it has daily miscarriages.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Just go out wearing a MAGA hat. They only have small brains it'll probably confuse them.

Like how insects are always pretending to be wasps so they don't get eaten, see it's scientific.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

Or even just dress how they'd expect their own to dress, don't even need a dumbass hat. I wear an old tan leather jacket and a Swedish combat cap which apparently translates to friend for them. Also applies to the anarchists though, they see my clothes as friendly.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Police issues a dispersal order, but blocks all routes to safely leave the area.

Congratulations, you will now be charged as having committed a crime and good luck proving in a court that there was no realistic option for you to leave.

Also police seizes your phone. Congratulations now they access your data and either go after people you have had contact with or they claim you to be part of a criminal organization as they pin other charges on people they found a connection with.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 7 points 3 days ago

This is the sort of nuts and bolts of protesting that Americans are learning the hard and fast way.

[–] arrow74@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I doubt they will find anything of use. The most powerful thing I can do is slow them down. It's the best use of my privilege