Monday, December 26, 2011
"Police employ Predator drone spy planes on home front"
With so much "news" these days, it's easy to miss things like this.
I suspect there eventually will be much controversy over this kind of activity...
I suspect there eventually will be much controversy over this kind of activity...
Brian Bennett recently posted this story at the L.A. Times:
"Fearful of an armed standoff, he called in reinforcements from the state Highway Patrol, a regional SWAT team, a bomb squad, ambulances and deputy sheriffs from three other counties.
He also called in a Predator B drone.
As the unmanned aircraft circled 2 miles overhead the next morning, sophisticated sensors under the nose helped pinpoint the three suspects and showed they were unarmed. Police rushed in and made the first known arrests of U.S. citizens with help from a Predator, the spy drone that has helped revolutionize modern warfare."
