Federal officials are flying a Predator drone over the Minnesota protests

[Andy Meek]

• Federal officials have been flying a Predator drone over Minneapolis on Friday, presumably to surveil Minneapolis protestors angry over the killing of George Floyd by police.
• The drone appears to be a Predator drone operated by US Customs and Border Protection, according to news accounts.
• This news comes as rioting and protests continued to intensify in Minneapolis heading into the weekend.

Officials with US Customs and Border Protection have been flying a Predator drone over protestors in Minneapolis as the situation there has spiraled out of control following the death of George Floyd -- the drone being one more commonly used on the battlefield to surveil and kill terrorists.

That's according to a Motherboard investigation, which used flight data to determine that an unarmed version of the drone was being flown over the protestors who've been marching against police brutality and excessive use of force. Hobbyist flight-watchers use open-source data to monitor skies around the US, and it was members of that community who first identified the drone, about which CBP has not released a statement yet though it's assumed the drone is monitoring protestors.

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