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Yesterday, while Madison took the streets for Corey Ruiz, and Houston for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Austin Police Department murdered a 17 year old Black kid –– over a water bottle. More than 20 rounds were shot within 20 seconds of police arriving to the quiet playground scene. Austin Police Chief has since disgustingly blamed the victim for his own death –– calling the shooting "suicide by police." But the blame for this child's death lies entirely on the cops who declared themselves judge, jury and executioner and pulled the trigger. We demand justice for this unidentified young boy, and all victims of racist police terror!

Flock cameras removed from Syracuse city property are being replaced by Axon -------------------------- They are presenting information as though Flock has problems that Axon does not. Cars and people are still being scanned and put into databases. The right to privacy is being violated. This representative talks as if people knowing "what's happening when their faces and license plates are scanned" somehow makes it ok. It's very odd that they would think that people who wanted Flock cameras removed would be ok with Axon cameras that do the same thing.

THIS image is an image of Signal Trace from a company called Leonardo. SignalTrace is not separate from license plate reader surveillance, it is built to work with license plate readers. By pairing plate reads with signals from phones, watches, headphones, vehicles, key finders, and other electronics, it can create an “electronic fingerprint” tied to a vehicle or person and continue identifying them even when a plate is hidden, changed, missing, or unreadable. That means a Flock, Motorola, Axon network can become a people tracking network capable of revealing where someone travels, who they travel with, and which homes, workplaces, protests, churches, medical offices, or political events they visit. 6 degrees of separation track EVERYONE. In the wrong hands, this is not just traffic enforcement, it is the infrastructure for warrantless mass surveillance, guilt by association, and a permanent record of innocent people’s movements. There needs to be an ordinance with steep fines with criminal penalties for adding devices onto public power poles or poles without labeling. Right now, any company, private or public can come in and put sniffing devices on anything and get away with it. They can track the Mayor, track The police Chief, sports figures or other dignitaries that come to town, including all of us.

This person submitted a FOIA request to his City for HIS OWN LICENSE PLATE (Flock Data) and was DENIED due to "privacy concerns." I REPEAT: When a man requested FLOCK FOOTAGE of HIS OWN CAR, the CITY claimed it was a PRIVACY VIOLATION and DENIED his request. So Flock can SPY on you in a mass surveillance state but YOU cannot even see YOUR OWN data or surveillance footage of YOU YOURSELF. Make it make sense.

"George Orwell's 1984 was a warning, not an instruction manual. It was based on the very real concern of a government becoming a totalitarian surveillance state where all the people did was observed, recorded, and scrutinized for any sign of WrongThink. It was a terrifying glimpse into Orwell's fears should his own preferred ideology of socialism take hold and go too far, but it wasn't just about socialism, either. It was what the state could do when no one stopped it." https://t.co/5mB7gcmN5b