some random thoughts re: the drone footage ICE released earlier today of a ginormous raid apparently targeted at someone posting flyers with information about ICE/HSI agents operating in their community first of all, real fun time to be into transparency/accountability of the police state i guess - ThreadSky

airplaneian.com • 21 days ago

some random thoughts re: the drone footage ICE released earlier today of a ginormous raid apparently targeted at someone posting flyers with information about ICE/HSI agents operating in their community

first of all, real fun time to be into transparency/accountability of the police state i guess

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counterpoint4.bsky.social•20 days ago

somerandosalt.bsky.social•21 days ago

American gestapo. What is the US version of Wagner’s Valkyries? Dueling banjos? The Imperial March? Something by Kid Rock or Kanye West? Whatever it is, cue that now.

moiety.bsky.social•21 days ago

So much staged fear induction

pnwpirate.bsky.social•21 days ago

They are all excited about this operation. If there was a true threat, they would be sitting ducks in the confines of suburbia.

celebrindan.bsky.social•21 days ago

They mass like this to intimidate the public
into not treating them like the Nazis they are.

ak-fella.bsky.social•21 days ago

Looks like something from Mosul.

airplaneian.com•21 days ago

anyways, let's start with scope of the operation... by my count there are 16 vehicles in the convoy

an absurd number of resources to spend on one guy who posted some flyers and ended up not even being at home

airplaneian.com•21 days ago

they're doing a "hammer and anvil" type operation... your eyes are drawn to the line of vehicles containing all the people used for the assault (the hammer), but if you look at the rear of the house, you can see agents moving in from the back (the anvil)

that team is responsible for "containment"

airplaneian.com•21 days ago

another detail from the video, fire and EMS have been pre-staged a block away

airplaneian.com•21 days ago

let's talk about the drone itself... it's weird that it's stationary and far away

imho this gives the game away that this whole thing is a stunt

if it was actually being used for tactical situational awareness, it'd be closer and likely orbiting the target house to provide overwatch

airplaneian.com•21 days ago

obviously it is possible there were others being used or even fixed wing/helicopter assets but this particular drone seems obviously intended to be used for PR

airplaneian.com•21 days ago

it is a fairly capable model, semi-educated guess is something like a DJI Zenmuse XT2 used with a DJI Matrice 200 sUAS with a longer focal length lens (25mm maybe), clearly 640px resolution with >30hz refresh rate and that setup allows for clean recordings with no overlays

ncyankee.bsky.social•21 days ago

How many law enforcement agents involved, I wonder. Because Operation Neptune Spear was conducted with 23 Navy SEALs and 2 Army helicopter pilots, and they stormed a compound of known terrorists.

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