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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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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1mo ago

A LAPD Helicopter Claimed Cops Identified Protesters From Above and Would “Come to Your House”

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

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“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.
  
  they are using palintir for that purpose.
  
  Yeah... There is no such thing as privacy or security. It's already game over for human rights like that. They need each citizen to be their product in which they can buy sell and profit off.
  The roosters at that cop city place in Georgia said they started getting harassed and followed by the police. The police and feds works the same as street gang pressure. It's basically legal modern Mafia... In fact they even have used the mafia for themselves.
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.
  
  Whoosh
- Or have we lived long enough to see the 4-chan meme of identifying as an attack helicopter become a real thing‽
Remember the government will profile you and harass you until you become the image they profiled you as.
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It can get cold if you're protesting at night, so don't forget to keep warm by wearing a face covering 😊
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?
- Literally anything hits the tail rotor and it's a spinning brick. .308, a drone, steel cable, Kevlar nets, whatever. Those things are hovering death traps
  
  Steel bearing from a slingshot even.
- Nah, just about any rifle round can. It's a matter of hitting it somewhere important though. Most people can't hit anything at any meaningful distance. So now you're going to shoot into the air, miss the helicopter and take out someone a couple miles away as collateral.
  
  This is true. Droning tail rotors doesn't risk missing just the helicopter falling on someone.
  
  I just realized that a couple of drones in the airspace is probably sufficient to deter a helicopter.
- Not necessarily. If they start taking any small arms fire I expect they'll leave. 5.56 could crack the windscreen or injure the occupants. A bigger round would be more effective if you actually want to hit the engine or transmission and actually take it down, yes. You could probably do it with anything .300 or larger (7.62 NATO, etc.) if you hit it just right or multiple times. Or yeah go for something big like .50 BMG and hit it once somewhere in the meaty bits. But rifles in .50 are often bigger and more awkward to move around.
- 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
- The main rotor blades can take a surprising amount of abuse.
  I found it even more surprising how much stuff can actually pass between the blades.
  https://youtu.be/CiDqNRdxTO0
If only there was something to shoot down police helicopters.
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