Police In North Dakota Now Have Weaponized Drones

Posted by | December 21, 2015 15:23 | Filed under: Andrew Bradford Contributors News Behaving Badly


We’re all aware that drones are used in areas such as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, both for surveillance and to shoot Hellfire missiles at suspected terrorists who are on the so-called “hit list” of bad guys. These drones are hard to spot, almost impossible to evade, and almost always lethal.

Back here in the United States, far away from the battlefields of the Middle East, police departments also use drones for surveillance and to assist with locating those engaged in criminal activity.

But now the North Dakota legislature has approved the use of drones which are equipped with :

Less than lethal weapons like tasers, tear gas, sound cannons, and rubber bullets….READ MORE at LiberalAmerica

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By: Andrew Bradford

Andrew Bradford is an author, academic, and political activist who lives in Atlanta. He is a Senior Writer for Liberal America and also has his own blog at deepleftfield.info