this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2025

216 points (98.2% liked)

News

37304 readers

2351 users here now

Welcome to the News community!

Rules:

1. Be civil

Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.

2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.

Obvious biased sources will be removed at the mods’ discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted separately but not to the post body. Sources may be checked for reliability using Wikipedia, MBFC, AdFontes, GroundNews, etc.

3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.

Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.

4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source. Clickbait titles may be removed.

Posts which titles don’t match the source may be removed. If the site changed their headline, we may ask you to update the post title. Clickbait titles use hyperbolic language and do not accurately describe the article content. When necessary, post titles may be edited, clearly marked with [brackets], but may never be used to editorialize or comment on the content.

5. Only recent news is allowed.

Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.

6. All posts must be news articles.

No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials, videos, blogs, press releases, or celebrity gossip will be allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis. Mods may use discretion to pre-approve videos or press releases from highly credible sources that provide unique, newsworthy content not available or possible in another format.

7. No duplicate posts.

If an article has already been posted, it will be removed. Different articles reporting on the same subject are permitted. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.

8. Misinformation is prohibited.

Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.

9. No link shorteners or news aggregators.

All posts must link to original article sources. You may include archival links in the post description. News aggregators such as Yahoo, Google, Hacker News, etc. should be avoided in favor of the original source link. Newswire services such as AP, Reuters, or AFP, are frequently republished and may be shared from other credible sources.

10. Don't copy entire article in your post body

For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

JonsJava@lemmy.world

gedaliyah@lemmy.world

little_cow@lemmy.world

216

An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house" (www.motherjones.com)

submitted 10 months ago by gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

27 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250609215923/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/los-angeles-ice-protests-helicopter/

top 27 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 57 points 10 months ago (1 children)

“This is a chilling statement,” he told Mother Jones. “Even if it were a joke, it was clearly designed to make the public afraid to exercise its First Amendment rights to protest and to hold government officials, including LAPD officers, accountable for their actions.”

Fuck this timeline. Resist. They don't have enough people to get to us all unless we are compliant.

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 29 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They don’t have enough people to get to us all unless we are compliant.

This is incorrect. They absolutely have enough people to monitor the feeds for detected people and collect people up individually after the fact, which is exactly what the speakers/statements are alluding to.

This is why "AI" bullshit is bullshit. This is why cameras on literally every traffic light is bad. This is what a lot of people have been screaming since 9/11. With the TSA and other organizations collecting information all willy nilly.

[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah... There is no such thing as privacy or security. It's already game over for human rights like that. They need each citizen to be their product in which they can buy sell and profit off.

The roosters at that cop city place in Georgia said they started getting harassed and followed by the police. The police and feds works the same as street gang pressure. It's basically legal modern Mafia... In fact they even have used the mafia for themselves.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

they are using palintir for that purpose.

[–] cannibalkitteh@lemmy.blahaj.zone 48 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The helicopter itself made these threats?

[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 37 points 10 months ago

Yeah, our government is like Cars.

[–] SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

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)

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 20 points 10 months 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.

[–] pticrix@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

Also : possible to redirect the sound toward the emitter using a parabolic object. Video on the 'tubes.

[–] Phenomephrene@thebrainbin.org 3 points 10 months ago

Or have we lived long enough to see the 4-chan meme of identifying as an attack helicopter become a real thing‽

[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 39 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Remember the government will profile you and harass you until you become the image they profiled you as.

[–] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

🗽

[–] dan@upvote.au 28 points 10 months ago

It can get cold if you're protesting at night, so don't forget to keep warm by wearing a face covering 😊

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Out of sheer curiosity, what kinds of rounds could feasibly take down a helicopter? Is .50 cal the minimum?

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Literally anything hits the tail rotor and it's a spinning brick. .308, a drone, steel cable, Kevlar nets, whatever. Those things are hovering death traps

[–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Steel bearing from a slingshot even.

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Nah, just about any rifle round can. It's a matter of hitting it somewhere important though. Most people can't hit anything at any meaningful distance. So now you're going to shoot into the air, miss the helicopter and take out someone a couple miles away as collateral.

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 months ago

This is true. Droning tail rotors doesn't risk missing just the helicopter falling on someone.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

I just realized that a couple of drones in the airspace is probably sufficient to deter a helicopter.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

Not necessarily. If they start taking any small arms fire I expect they'll leave. 5.56 could crack the windscreen or injure the occupants. A bigger round would be more effective if you actually want to hit the engine or transmission and actually take it down, yes. You could probably do it with anything .300 or larger (7.62 NATO, etc.) if you hit it just right or multiple times. Or yeah go for something big like .50 BMG and hit it once somewhere in the meaty bits. But rifles in .50 are often bigger and more awkward to move around.

[–] Scranulum@feddit.nu 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A few cheap laser pointers from Walmart or the discount store and that thing will either be landing immediately, leaving the AO, or crashing violently.

But, you know, you should never do this. Or whatever I'm supposed to say here to prevent the secret police from kicking my door in.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I don't think there is anything to prevent that. So might as well say as much as you can before they snatch away the mic

[–] EisFrei@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

The main rotor blades can take a surprising amount of abuse.
I found it even more surprising how much stuff can actually pass between the blades.
https://youtu.be/CiDqNRdxTO0

[–] errer@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

I was a juror on a trial where a camera was used to record a purported crime from a helicopter. The camera quality was no joke, I could make out the individual buttons on the guy’s shirt. I don’t doubt they could ID people from the chopper.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 10 months ago

If only there was something to shoot down police helicopters.

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Deleted