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It’s Not Just Flock. Police Can’t Be Trusted With Our Data.
1+ week, 2+ day ago (545+ words) Matt Chapman, a researcher with the Chicago-based Lucy Parsons Labs, stumbled across the map when he was researching license plate readers maintained by the Illinois State Police (ISP). “Anybody can find this,” Chapman told Truthout. “Anybody can use this for…...
What DeFlock? Week of Action Confronts the AI Surveillance State
3+ week, 3+ day ago (1181+ words) A Kansas activist discovered that police tracked him with Flock-style cameras after he wrote an op-ed criticizing them. “It wasn’t ACAB. It wasn’t, ‘You guys should be hung by your ankles,’” Ashworth told Truthout. “It was very much just like,…...
Authoritarians Will Target Effective Legal Organizing, Minnesota Defendant Warns
1+ mon, 9+ hour ago (402+ words) In the interview that follows, organizer Cameron Kennedy, one of the so-called “Minnesota 15” defendants, discusses his thoughts on anarchism, the role it played in organizing opposition to Operation Metro Surge, and how other communities can organize resistance. The interview that…...
ICE Is Buying Up to $20 Million Worth of Electric Shock Gloves
1+ mon, 11+ hour ago (551+ words) The manufacturer says the gloves can allow ICE agents to force compliance within seconds. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is buying up to $20 million worth of gloves that can allow agents to issue a painful electric shock to force people…...
Madison Residents Protest After Police Shoot, Kill a Black Man in Broad Daylight
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (719+ words) “The people most affected by policing must have the power to decide what safety looks like,” a local group said. Hundreds of people demonstrated in Madison, Wisconsin, on Wednesday night following the police killing of a Black man in a…...
DOJ’s Attempts to Charge People With Assaulting Immigration Agents are Falling Apart
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (523+ words) One former prosecutor suggested that many of the arrests were “being filed without any merit.” An examination of cases in which people were arrested for supposedly assaulting an immigration agent finds that nearly half of those charges were either dropped…...
Trump Rejects Pause on ICE Traffic Stops After Fatal July Shootings
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (442+ words) ICE agents have shot and killed two people this month while conducting traffic stops and vehicle pursuits. Less than a full day after several news outlets reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would temporarily suspend agents from conducting traffic…...
DHS Says ICE Killed Man in Maine While He Was Trying to Flee
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (646+ words) The victim was identified by Sen. Angus King’s office as Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 26-year-old father from Colombia. In a late-day statement on Monday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shifted its narrative on the fatal ICE shooting of a…...
The FBI Has Deputized Local Cops as Federal Agents. Communities Are Resisting.
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (369+ words) Organizers are fighting the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Forces, gaining momentum from the broader anti-ICE movement. A local cop who is contracted to work with a JTTF has the same policing powers as an FBI agent, and the Department of…...
SCOTUS Ruling Could Be Bad News for Flock — But Won’t Stop Mass Surveillance
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (1177+ words) Organizers across the country are using every tool in their arsenal against Flock surveillance cameras. “The court is really focusing on the mass surveillance aspect of these technologies,” said Michael Soyfer, an attorney with the Institute for Justice, in a…...