Americans are cheering for vigilantes who take down Flock cameras

Americans have declared war on Flock cameras. They’ve protested them, damaged them, and destroyed them.

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Americans are cheering for vigilantes who take down Flock cameras

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Key Facts

Fact 1: Last week, a police sheriff in Lumpkin County, Georgia, took to Facebook to announce a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of whoever destroyed a Flock Safety camera installed near a local park.
Fact 2: Jarrard’s post has since received more than 30,000 comments, the vast majority opposing the cameras and many mocking the police and even praising the vandals.
Fact 3: In one recent case, an Air Force engineer accused of cutting down 13 Flock cameras in Virginia has received over $44,000 for his legal defense from supporters via GoFundMe.
Fact 4: Earlier this month, police in Winona, Minnesota, said they would not reinstall the city’s eight Flock cameras after all of them were stolen, citing “growing concerns about trust in policing.” On August 3rd, following two incidents where Flock cameras were destroyed, police in Burnet County, Texas, announced that they had removed all Flock cameras from the area.

Americans have declared war on Flock cameras. They’ve protested them, damaged them, and destroyed them.

This is only the beginning. The spontaneous and decentralized nature of the vigilante protests is also what makes them difficult to suppress. There isn’t a uniform method of disruption; people have done everything from unplugging, smashing, stealing, and spray-painting the surveillance devices to taking less destructive actions like physically blocking the cameras for hours.

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