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We have cameras everywhere in that town.
You can't get a breath of fresh air in
or out without us knowing.
We are in the middle of a full-blown
surveillance takeover. While most people
were just trying to get to work, drop
off the kids, or grab groceries, a quiet
invasion rolled into towns and cities
all across the United States, turning
American streets, and soon enough
Canadian ones if they get their way,
into a 24/7
surveillance grid. Flock surveillance
cameras are spreading fast across the US
with more than 100,000 of these
AI-powered Flock surveillance cameras
now lining American roads. This isn't
tomorrow, guys. This is right now. And
if we don't expose it and fight it, your
neighborhood is next. These cameras
aren't just snapping plates. They're
building searchable databases of your
every move. They're smart machines
running Android, solar-powered units on
poles, feeding AI, and streaming footage
to a cloud that catalogs your car, your
stickers, your route, and even you
yourself, all searchable in seconds.
Police in one state can search data from
cameras hundreds of thousands of miles
away. And in many cases, that data has
been quietly accessed by federal
agencies like ICE, the FBI, the ATF, and
Customs and Border Protection, all
without local authorization or public
knowledge. 53 cities have already
canceled over unauthorized federal data
access.
Dayton, Ohio had to bag their cameras
like trash because contracts trapped
them. But here's where it gets personal.
These systems aren't just invasive.
They're making mistakes that ruin
innocent lives. Check out this clip of a
woman who was wrongfully accused of
stealing a package after police used a
Flock camera to ID her vehicle. They
showed up at her front door and
confronted her like a criminal. She had
to prove her own innocence just to clear
her name. This is the public safety
they're selling or is it a dragnet that
turns every single driver into a
potential suspect until proven
otherwise.
We have cameras everywhere in that town.
You can't get a breath of fresh air in
or out without us knowing.
Krissana Elzer learned the power of
Flock first hand.
You were in town from 11:52 until 12:09.
Exactly. Like I said, nothing gets in or
out of the town without us knowing.
When a Colorado police officer showed up
at her door holding Flock snapshots of
her truck.
And here's when you left
at 12:09. That's when you left town.
To get
No, to stop at Ridge Trail.
Wait a minute.
And take a package. Well, there's no
shushing. I don't need to be
to know where this is.
I
The first thing he pulled out on the
body cam is that Flock picture, the
clear photograph of your car.
But here's your vehicle in the
neighborhood many, many times apparently
casing houses cuz you just can't drive
through for work or visit other
businesses. You can only be casing
houses.
It is her. It is 100%. It is locked in.
There is zero doubt. I wouldn't have
come here unless I was 100% sure. 100%.
It is certain. It is on video. You're
obviously welcome to go to court.
Krissana was charged with stealing a
package, but it wasn't her. The porch
pirate was somebody else.
Multiple times you tried to show him
your video evidence. He didn't want to
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No, even when I called him back, he
said, "That's not my job."
You looked at the time of a crime. You
saw my vehicle entering in the Flock
No, no. What I did was I did an
investigation.
You called my wife a liar. You claimed
this is crack.
I have video evidence. I don't know what
you want me to say.
The charges were dropped after
Cristhianna spent weeks [music] trying
to get the police chief to look at her
evidence. Time-stamped video from her
truck and a neighbor's doorbell camera
showing she wasn't at the scene of the
crime.
What does it say about where we are that
you feel you have to have more cameras
than the police have in order to make
sure you can prove yourself innocent?
It sounds like it flipped the script to
you're guilty until you prove yourself
innocent.
Without a Flock camera, that detective
would not have been at her door by his
own admission. He pulled out the Flock
picture of her car. Do you want to
apologize to Cristhianna Elzer for what
For the police misusing the tools?
I I don't think that I have to apologize
for him.
with a crime. He wasn't I mean, other
than being reprimanded for his attitude.
Sure. No, but I would tell you that
like, should I apologize for somebody
misusing a tool? I don't think so.
Flock Safety Chief Communications
Officer Josh Thomas.
Who's watching the watchers in these
cases?
Well, uh the city council. The city owns
the data, so city council would have the
appropriate responsibility in that case.
Our our point of view has always been
that um it is not Flock's job to police
the way police do their work.
This is what they're doing to regular
people. One glitch,
one wrong ping, and your life stops. How
long until it's you? Well, these people
aren't going to wait to find out. All
across the country, ordinary citizens
are taking direct action, cutting down
these cameras with chainsaws and power
tools. They're not waiting for
permission. And then there's this guy
dropping a public service announcement
with the straightest face possible.
So, I can tell lots of you are very
passionate about not damaging the Flock
cameras, which is a good thing. We all
very much want to protect
the Flock cameras. So, for public safety
to know what kind of laser to not shine
around Flock cameras,
you should definitely avoid going on
Amazon and looking for a laser that
shines between 490 and 570 nanometers
and has more than 1,000 mW of power.
Wink, wink, nudge, nudge. My friend
Jason Basler has some pro tips for
de-Flock hunters. Pro tip number one,
always leave your phone at home. Pro tip
number two, never film yourself. Also,
just wanted to point out that this mask
is only $4.97 on Temu. Happy hunting.
And one man went full creative
resistance. He built his own
anti-surveillance rig, a camera mounted
on his chest feeding live video to a big
TV strapped to his back. The result is
that it creates an illusion that he's
not there, making himself invisible to
the watching eyes.
This is the only device that allows you
to legally evade America's surveillance
system. Because my first attempt to not
be recorded by the millions of cameras
that track you everywhere you go didn't
really go as planned.
You kind of like look like clanish doing
stuff like that.
Clanish? So, I invented something new to
outsmart the cameras watching us and not
be racist at the same time. It's
essentially a giant backpack with a
camera on one side that live streams to
the TV mounted on my back, therefore
obscuring my body and face, making me
entirely invisible. It works pretty well
on dogs.
So, I figured it'd work on surveillance
cameras, too. They're basically the same
thing.
Sure, it's expensive to build and maybe
a little clunky, but it just goes to
show how far people might go to resist
this. Groups like Flock Off Ithaca and
de-Flock activists are mapping every
single one of these cameras so people
know exactly where they are. In fact,
you can go to defrock.org
and launch their map to see every single
camera that might be near you. But, the
authorities are not ignoring this
pushback. Federal agencies and fusion
centers are now circulating reports
warning about rising anti-tech
extremism. They're framing regular
people who just don't want to be tracked
24/7
as potential threats. Sound familiar?
It's the same playbook used against
every movement that challenges
surveillance control. But, this isn't
about being anti-police or anti-safety.
It's about rejecting a system that
treats every driver as a suspect, shares
your data without consent, makes
mistakes that destroy lives, and then
labels resistance as extremism. Flock
Safety crossed 100,000 cameras while
entire cities are walking away. The
writing is on the wall
or rather on the pole. So, here's how
you resist. Go to deflock.me
and see exactly where these cameras are
in your area and share the map. Show up
to city council and town hall meetings.
Demand transparency. Demand audits of
federal data access, and demand that
they cancel the contracts. Support the
legal fights from groups like the EFF
and the ACLU who are challenging these
systems in court. Share stories like
Krystal Elser's. The more people who see
the real human cost, the more this thing
falls apart. And, get creative. Document
everything. Use your own cameras to hold
them accountable, and build your own
low-tech tech counters if that's your
thing. Because, the surveillance state
wants you to feel powerless. They want
you to think that it's already too late,
but it's not. Cities are canceling.
People are cutting them down. Innovators
and inventors are building invisible
rigs. Protesters are covering them up.
This is the blueprint. This is how we
push back. So, don't let them watch you
without a fight. The eyes are watching,
but so are we. Please share this video
far and wide, guys, because nothing's
ever going to change unless there's
enough people who know there's a problem
in the first place. And protecting your
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the rug. So, that's all for today, guys.
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being seen. Thanks for watching. As
always, stay vigilant, keep fighting the
good fight, and stay tuned. I'm going to
have more video reports coming soon, God
willing.
This is Dan Dicks reporting for Press
for Truth.
We all want truth.
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The truth will set you free.
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