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Federal surveillance plane spotted above Baltimore riots; ACLU demands answers
GOPUSA via UPI ^

Posted on 05/06/2015 11:27:54 AM PDT by shove_it

BALTIMORE (UPI) -- The American Civil Liberties Union is demanding answers about an apparent surveillance plane spotted for days hovering above where riots erupted in Baltimore, Md., over the death of Freddie Gray.

Benjamin Shayne, 39, saw what appeared to be a small Cessna plane hovering in low altitude in areas around West Baltimore where rioting occurred. He tweeted a question about it to his nearly 600 followers through his ScanBaltimore handle and one responded to him with information about the plane, including a screenshot of its flightpath.

Shayne's discovery helped unveil a secret campaign of surveillance involving at least two airplanes by city and federal authorities, including assistance from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to the Washington Post.

A government official familiar with the surveillance operations told the Washington Post on the condition of anonymity that the flights were areal support requested by Baltimore police from the FBI.

The planes used infrared technology to monitor people's movements in the streets of Baltimore...

(Excerpt) Read more at gopusa.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: baltimore; chemtrails; maryland
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Ain't people watching fun?
1 posted on 05/06/2015 11:27:54 AM PDT by shove_it
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To: shove_it

DEMANDING ANSWERS are they?

there were RIOTS going on!!!!!


2 posted on 05/06/2015 11:30:21 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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RE:”Benjamin Shayne, 39, saw what appeared to be a small Cessna plane hovering in low altitude in areas around West Baltimore where rioting occurred. He tweeted a question about it to his nearly 600 followers through his ScanBaltimore handle and one responded to him with information about the plane, including a screenshot of its flightpath. “

Air planes cant hover. Their air prop points forward not down. They fly forward or in circular patterns.

If they wanted to hover and record the fun below the Phantom 2 hovercraft drone is the right tool, relatively cheap too.

3 posted on 05/06/2015 11:33:34 AM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: shove_it

If you ain’t doin’ nothin’ wrong, ya’ ain’t got nothin’ to worry ‘bout.


4 posted on 05/06/2015 11:33:54 AM PDT by EBH (And the angel poured out his cup...)
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To: MeshugeMikey

THIS is what sets ACLU off? Not the persecution of police officers, not the encouragement of rioters with the excuse “its only property”, not the swift indictment of the officers involved without the benefit of a grand jury, not for the immediate cover-up of complicity of the local officials with the Current Regime now squatting in the White Hut.


5 posted on 05/06/2015 11:35:09 AM PDT by alloysteel (It isn't science, it's law. Rational thought does not apply.)
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To: shove_it

Well.. the thing ain’t meant for photographing wildlife and rivers.


6 posted on 05/06/2015 11:35:53 AM PDT by humblegunner (NOW with even more AWESOMENESS)
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To: shove_it

They’re watching you, with good cause. Next question?


7 posted on 05/06/2015 11:36:16 AM PDT by Raebie
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If you ain’t doin’ nothin’ wrong, ya’ ain’t got nothin’ to worry ‘bout.

Is that what the officer said to you the last time you had an unwarranted cavity search?

8 posted on 05/06/2015 11:36:25 AM PDT by MeganC (You can ignore reality, but reality won't ignore you.)
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To: shove_it

the word on the street is that it wasn’t the FBI

it was the Newark chapter of the KKK


9 posted on 05/06/2015 11:37:37 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: shove_it

Sounds like Intelligence Support Activity modus operandi in Latin America. They were based out of Ft Belvoir. No idea what became of them, orif they are still around. Used small planes for complex sigint platforms. Just one more example of military tech morphing into civilian applications so the cash flow can keep rolling in to the contractors.


10 posted on 05/06/2015 11:38:00 AM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: shove_it

Mighty interesting.

I would think that a clever defense activity might demand to see the data collected by that aircraft, including images or video obtained by sensing means aboard it.

I would also think that a clever defense attorney might also want to know certain information about who ordered the aircraft to go on its mission, which agency that person works (or worked) for, and for what purpose a federal observation aircraft was ordered into the sky over a US city that was in the throes of civil unrest.


11 posted on 05/06/2015 11:39:20 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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"Ah be ready fo' may close-up Mistah Chollie." I'm ready for my closeup photo: Closeup MORTIE.jpg
12 posted on 05/06/2015 11:40:05 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: sickoflibs

Yes.

The Cessna is, indeed, a very versatile small plane - but I am unaware of any model they ever produced which was capable of hovering.


13 posted on 05/06/2015 11:40:25 AM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

That’s what I was thinking. “Well Mr. Aclu, to answer your question, we put the planes up there because we wanted to keep an eye on the riots.”


14 posted on 05/06/2015 11:40:38 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: shove_it

It was Barry making sure the police were giving the rioters space to destroy.


15 posted on 05/06/2015 11:42:42 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: EBH

“If you ain’t doin’ nothin’ wrong, ya’ ain’t got nothin’ to worry ‘bout.”

We can only hope.


16 posted on 05/06/2015 11:42:45 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: WayneS

Those whiners at the ACLU didnt mind all the TV helocopters hovering around to catch the rioters on camera.

It must of been a traffic jam up there overhead.


17 posted on 05/06/2015 11:42:46 AM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: bert

“... t was the Newark chapter of the KKK ...”

LOL!


18 posted on 05/06/2015 11:44:08 AM PDT by shove_it (old Old Guardsman)
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To: bert

Newark, New Jersey or Newark, Delaware?

...or Newark, Maryland?


19 posted on 05/06/2015 11:45:07 AM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: demshateGod

things must be SLOW at the local ACLU office this time of year....


20 posted on 05/06/2015 11:45:38 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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