Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
Suddenly, drivers find themselves pulled over — often for reasons cited such as speeding, failure to signal, the wrong window tint or even a dangling air freshener blocking the view. They are then aggressively questioned and searched, with no inkling that the roads they drove put them on law enforcement’s radar.
Only solution is going to be to ban the automated license plate scanners; otherwise this is going to keep on happening.
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That’s all it takes to get pulled over and investigated for drug trafficking WTF. This is so wrong. Can’t even drive in your own damn country
Fuck everything about Texas.
Desert shit hole
Happened to me once outside San Angelo. Noticed the car behind turn their headlights off for a second, then they flipped their red and blues on. I was pulled over because my license plate lights were out, but I'm pretty sure they just wanted to see who was driving the shitty car with out of state plates through their town. No ticket, no warning, didn't ask to search the car, just annoyingly nosey.
Too many laws is a problem all over. If authorities want to charge you they will find something. Combine that with selective enforcement and effective immunity for the rich and powerful and it's a justice shit show.
While true, fuck texas, it's not like there's any other state that doesn't have the same laws on the books. In fact, I bet they have their own stupid little shit that's unique to them that'll get you pulled over.
Why is "suspicious" quoted. Suspicious "travel patterns" == suspicious skin colors.
Also any kind of activity other than merely going back and forth to work and suggests you might be socially connected
Or traveling over certain routes known to lead to abortion providers.
I think it's probably because the behavior isn't suspicious at all, but they're using the cops' words. Pretty standard headline stuff.
Flock drones and cameras need to be destroyed.
The land of the surveillanced and the home of the fascists
Yes but they aren’t going to ban them. In fact they will do the opposite and get more
Cool. They are incredibly vulnerable. Sounds like we need to demonstrate that hijacked tools can be used against those in power.
Preferably a la Luigi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0gr7Fh6lY
We Hacked Flock Safety Cameras in under 30 Seconds.
Sounds great. Too bad nothing like that will ever happen
Be the change you want to see in the world
I’m mid-way through the emigration process. I look forward to unsubscribing from US news. Byyyeeeeee
Bye, Felicia
So free travel isn't a thing anymore?
Hmm. What other historical examples of this are there and how did that turn out?
You have the right to remain silent. Use it.
Oh you sweet summer child
Yet another thing that's straight out of dystopian fiction to the point that it wouldn't surprise me if that's where they got the idea.
The plots of ALL such movies, shows, and books must be kept away from cops and billionaires, lest they inevitably find it inspirational and copy it.
Surveilance state babe.