Obama drones policy may have played a role in Rittenhouse trial

[enhanced_deficit]

Pending further confirmation... initial news reporting is not always fully accurate or complete.
This drone program launched under Obama likely to expand under future regimes. This domestic drone policy is separate from the widely known Obama drone policy in foreign countries that was allegedly responsible for large scale killing of children and civilians of other races.


EXPLAINER: Rittenhouse plane part of widespread surveillance

The FBI surveillance plane that captured footage of the night Kyle Rittenhouse shot three people during a protest against police brutality in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year was part of a wider government strategy to keep tabs on demonstrations against racial injustice

Via AP news wireWednesday 03 November 2021

Kenosha Protests Shootings

Prosecutors working to convict Kyle Rittenhouse in the shootings of three people during a protest against police brutality in Wisconsin have introduced as evidence surveillance video taken from an FBI airplane circling thousands of feet above the chaos.

Rittenhouse killed Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and wounded Gaige Grosskreutz during the demonstration in Kenosha in August 2020. His trial began Monday. Rittenhouse argues that he fired in self-defense after the men attacked him; prosecutors say he inserted himself into a volatile situation and that video from the plane will show he chased Rosenbaum.

Here's a look at government efforts to track people's activities from the air:

HAS THE GOVERNMENT USED PLANES TO MONITOR PAST PROTESTS?

Yes. Aerial surveillance of protests is actually very common. According to an August 2020 Air Force inspector general report, the National Guard used surveillance planes to watch over demonstrations in Washington, D.C., Minnesota, Arizona and California after George Floyd's death in Minneapolis that May.

The FBI used aircraft to monitor protests in Ferguson, Missouri, following the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown and in Baltimore to track protests following Freddie Gray's death in police custody in 2015. Democrat Barack Obama was president during both of those events. Law enforcement also used aerial surveillance to monitor a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 that turned deadly. Republican Donald Trump was president at that time.
An Associated Press investigation in 2015 found that the FBI had built a fleet of at least 50 surveillance planes that flew more than 100 flights over 11 states during a one-month span in the spring of that year under the Obama administration. The AP traced the planes to at least 13 fake companies designed to obscure the identity of the aircraft and the pilots.

The AP review also found that the Drug Enforcement Administration had at least 92 surveillance aircraft as of 2011 under Obama. The U.S. Marshals Service also has operated its own aerial surveillance program.

independent.co.uk/news/kyle-rittenhouse-donald-trump-fbi-joseph-rosenbaum-barack-obama-b1950987.html


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Aug 4, 2020 — A law enforcement drone in flight. ... at least 270 hours of surveillance footage on these racial justice protests this spring and summer.

[acptulsa]

Encourage useful idiots to riot.

Help useful idiots organize riots.

Set out pallets of bricks for useful idiots.

Drive small businesses under in neighborhoods that woke corporations won't touch.

Destabilize society.

Arrest all the surviving useful idiots.

[enhanced_deficit]

Insightful point, there does seem to be a level of orchestration behind some high profile protests that occupied media headlines for months... followed by political milking.

[pcosmar]

Insightful point, there does seem to be a level of orchestration behind some high profile protests that occupied media headlines for months... followed by political milking.

some are tasting sour milk.

[enhanced_deficit]

some are tasting sour milk.

Touche!

Although, some of political milking (by anti-MAGA factions of progressives & Deep State) worked too making MAGA revolution a one-term thing.

[pcosmar]

Touche!

Although, some of political milking (by anti-MAGA factions of progressives & Deep State) worked too making MAGA revolution a one-term thing.

yet to be seen..

I would be glad to see the end of the current doddering drooling imbecile.
Who will the DNC promote next?? How far down can they go?

all yet to be seen.

[enhanced_deficit]

Was this kind of language about a sitting Commander-in-Chief really necessary.

In any case, so far appears to be bit better than Dems last award winning gift Obama.. since Biden hasn't started any new wars and the extent of his big gummit expansion seems to be limited to domestic affairs only and might not have similar compounding effect.

[Anti Globalist]

It is rather interesting that there were drone flying through the air on that particular day.