• ohulancutash@feddit.uk
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    2 days ago

    They’re not police cars. They’re self-driving cars, and the photo was taken at the anti-ICE rioting in Los Angeles.

    You have to be a special brand of stupid to set an electric vehicle on fire.

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      1 day ago

      Old and busted: Tying burning tufts of wool to the sparrows and cats and letting them loose in the enemy city to set the whole thing on fire

      New hotness: Lighting the electric vehicles on fire and letting them drive through the streets on their programming, and cause mayhem

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      2 days ago

      Far as I recall, the electric vehicle’s cameras were (perhaps illegally) used against the protesters for surveillance and identification purposes.

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        1 day ago

        They were driverless taxis, cunningly parked up at a taxi rank. The devious bastards.