That search returned for Crabgrass:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/crime/2026/08/08/flock-camera-vandalism-controversy/91194591007/
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/30/us/flock-camera-vandalism-protests-cec
The point is, many are bothered by a sense of freedom of movement and association being quelled by an over-purposed surveillance state mentality among those of us who govern us. The Deep State, as called by those resenting it.
So, use the vote. Vote against ICE and Border Patrol who did worse than put up cameras to watch everyone. They targeted those they did not like, or who did not like them.
minnesotareformer.com:
Homeland Security investigators secretly recorded conversations, infiltrated Signal chats and obtained financial records for labor unions and progressive groups as part of a wide-ranging surveillance effort during Operation Metro Surge, according to court documents filed Thursday morning.
The documents, first reported by The New York Times, were filed by defense attorneys in the federal case against 15 Minnesotans accused of conspiracy to impede or injure a federal agent.
That's not merely watching, that's trying to get criminal convictions for protected rights being exercised (and observed - "spied upon" in direct terms).
The feds’ surveillance programs, dubbed “Operation Puppet Master” and “Operation Whipple Shield,” go far beyond the 15 people indicted.
Homeland Security agents used administrative subpoenas — subpoenas issued by the federal agency rather than a judge — to obtain financial records from organizations including the labor unions Service Employees International Union and Communications Workers of America; Voices for Racial Justice, a longstanding racial justice training organization; and Sunrise Movement, an environmental justice organization that organized noise protests outside of immigration agents’ hotels during Operation Metro Surge.
“This broad collection of financial records of labor and social justice advocacy organizations, done in secret and with no articulable criminal predicate, violates both the First Amendment and these organizations’ right to financial privacy,” the attorneys wrote.
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Agents collected the license plate numbers of attendees during a meeting of anti-ICE protesters at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Roseville to obtain the names of the attendees. The agents then compiled a dossier including attendees’ names, photos, addresses, vehicle registrations, family and employment information.
The feds also used Clearview AI, a facial recognition software, to compile photo dossiers of activists and protesters, including many who were not charged.
A diagram shown to the grand jury during the indictment process linked a number of organizations to the conspiracy — centered around an organization called “Direct Action MN” — with no evidence, according to the defense attorneys. The organizations include SEIU, the AFL-CIO, the Minneapolis Federation of Educators, Monarca, Democratic Socialists of America and Minnesota Association of Professional Employees, the labor union representing state workers.
It's not just reading your license plate numbers passively, to be able to link your driving where and when to possibly speculating about why and what's possible to do about it. It is active government boot on particularized throats, aimed with a purpose - well beyond randomly positioned camera poles.
And it got taken to court. Your Flock travel itinerary will seldom if ever be taken to a court. This other stuff was targeted and for that very purpose. It was not a thing of "a few cameras, why not" but rather:
A memorandum issued by President Donald Trump in September directed the U.S. Department of Justice and Homeland Security to investigate “all participants in these criminal and terroristic conspiracies — including the organized structures, networks, entities, organizations, funding sources, and predicate actions behind them.” It also expanded the definition of “domestic terrorism” to include crimes like revealing personal details of federal agents or getting in the way of immigration enforcement.
Specific targeting for believing Stephen Miller an asshole and going outside the home to watch abuse of your neighbors by masked men patroling around in unmarked cars dressed up in riot gear.
And you're more intrigued by choping down a license plate camera? Get real.
Nobody's been shot dead by a Flock camera. These creeps, that's a different story.
Get your head right on priorities. It matters. Use your vote.