So just use one too and blend in. Put on a stupid Trump or racist hat, and if you are not white, put on gloves. Then surround them.

So which cameras can be used to overcome normal face coverings? https://piped.video/watch?v=yRFeS72IM6M

Ever wonder why the uh, default cop idle stance, the at ease stance.... is each hand up at it's shoulder, elbows bent, in front of chest?

Because that way they can very, very easily, and casually, bump their chestcam, obsure its view, muffle the sound.

"In all forms of strategy, it is necessary to maintain the combat stance in everyday life and to make your everyday stance your combat stance."

• Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings.

easily solvable problem: losing the footage is indication of guilt. you shoot someone, you better have it ready. it malfunctioned, better have a partner who has theirs ready. if no one has footage to clear you, it's used as evidence of guilt.

of course pussy ass lawmakers will never do that.

I heard a bit on NPR over the weekend talking about copaganda. Turns out body cams are beneficial to cops, because they can take that footage and selectively edit and release it to push a certain narrative.

If you've ever seen a clip on social media, it often starts a few seconds before the cop hits someone, rarely showing the full sequence of events that led up to that point.

And if they can't edit the footage to make them look good? "Oops, we didn't retrieve that footage in time so it was overwritten."

"All of the sudden" is only valid because it's so commonly (incorrectly) used. Much as it annoys me, that's just how language works.

I took a selfie and it told me I was an ice agent.... Wtf I'm such a piece of shit

It is definitely not going to work on any cop. There are still cops who are working in countries where privacy laws exist.

So the people doing the snatching are gig workers? Is there a TaskRabbit for fascism?

Uh, well someone's doing it

For the moment

No, it’s happening everywhere. But I’ve also seen some significant resistance happening in other cities like NYC, Newark, Portland, Seattle, SF, etc.

I was thinking this too! Gait recognition can completely bypass facial coverings as a means of identification, but I also don't think it'll be much help here.

Gait recognition can be bypassed by things as simple as putting a rock in your shoe so you walk differently, so when you think about how much extra heavy gear, different shoes, and different overall movement patterns ICE agents will possibly be engaging in, it might not hold up well at tracking them down, especially since to recognize someone by gait, you'd need footage of them that you can already identify them in, to then train the model on.

In the case of fucklapd.com, this was easy because they could just get public record data for headshot photos, but there isn't a comparable database with names directly tied to it for gait. I will say though, a lot of these undercover agents might be easier to track by gait since they'll still generally be wearing more normal attire, and it might be more possible to associate them with who they are outside of work since it's easier to slip up when you're just wearing normal clothes.

A lot of masks only work in the visible light spectrum. It's entirely possible to "radar" images and remove them.

is that just user submitted or do they have some sort of verification process (don't ask me what it would be i can only think of stuff that works with nonfascist governments right now) because, well us and ours have fucked with similar forms too (e.g. that one texas abortion bounty hunter form comes to mind first)