Secretive eye-in-sky SPD drones stir concerns and public disobedience

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• Thursday, April 26, 2012
  
  
  
  
  
  The Federal Aviation Administration's approval of a license for the Seattle Police Department to operate unmanned aerial drones should spark debate about privacy, public policy and the use of technology in law enforcement, according to the ACLU.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  An angry and disobedient demonstrator this afternoon chanted "Question authority"
  
  
  Mayor Mike McGinn and Seattle police declined to talk about how the department intends to use drones, ignoring their recent hollow promises of more transparency to the public. An angry officer did comment through gritted teeth that "... a little of our planned  ass-kicking law enforcement will soon fix their sorry, sagging, anarchist asses. Just you wait, news whores, we'll fix your saggy  asses too..."
  
  
  
  Schiebel S-100 fitted with a Lightweight Multirole Missile
  
  
  An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without a human pilot onboard. Its flight is either controlled autonomously by computers in the vehicle, or under the remote control of a navigator, or pilot (called a Combat Systems Officer on UCAVs) on the ground or in another vehicle.
  
  

  

  A chemical warfare (CW) UAV spray platform, using the toxic properties of chemical substances as crowd control weapons, being given final flight check by SPD technician.

  
  
  
  
  

  A drone aircraft can carry up to 14 Hellfire missiles and can carry laser guided bombs, such as the GBU-12. The availability of high performance sensors and large capacity of precision guided weapons may enable the new UAV drones to operate as an efficient "Hunter-Killer" platform, seeking and engaging targets at high probability of success. It may be equipped with an L-3 Communications Tactical Common Datalink (TCDL).
  
  
  
  
  Hellfire Missile
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  The Seattle Police Department is taking a big and potentially controversial step forward with this new piece of law enforcement technology. The SPD is prepping its officers to fly a $300,000 unmanned Shadow Hawk helicopter (paid for with a Homeland Security grant) that will carry a weapons payload.
  
  

  If Seattle can make a success of its drone deployment this could mark the beginning of a larger trend in 

  
  

  
  

  aggressive law enforcement and a larger, more hands-on role for robotics.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  



• An innocent and pure unarmed demonstrator, exercising his holy anarchy rights  near South Lake Union, wears a protective suit and body armor against SPD's brutal toxic chemical sprays and truncheons. Clearly he makes a fine  victim.

JUST SHOOT HIM.

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NO TOTUM CARVERS WERE SHOT DURING THE ABOVE INCIDENTS








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