Predator drone used by North Dakota Police for arr

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Submission + - Predator drone used by North Dakota Police for arr

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garymortimer

on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @07:11AM

garymortimer writes: "Meet the Brossarts, a North Dakota family deemed so dangerous that the local sheriff needed unleashed an unmanned Predator drone to help bring them in.

The Brossart’s alleged crime? They wouldn’t give back three cows and their calves that wandered onto their 3,000-acre farm this summer.

The Brossarts are the first known subjects of the high-flying new surveillance technology that the federal government has made available to some local sheriffs and police chiefs – all without Congressional approval or search warrants"

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