gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 4 days agoAn LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house"www.motherjones.comexternal-linkmessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up1218arrow-down14file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1214arrow-down1external-linkAn LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house"www.motherjones.comgAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 4 days agomessage-square27fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
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minus-squarecannibalkitteh@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up50arrow-down2·4 days agoThe helicopter itself made these threats?
minus-squarepeteyestee@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37·4 days agoYeah, our government is like Cars.
minus-squareSinAdjetivos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·edit-23 days agoDon’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)
minus-squareHellsBelle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·3 days ago “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.
minus-squarepticrix@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 days agoAlso : possible to redirect the sound toward the emitter using a parabolic object. Video on the 'tubes.
minus-squarePhenomephrene@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoOr have we lived long enough to see the 4-chan meme of identifying as an attack helicopter become a real thing‽
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)
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‽