Florida cops are facing questions after a mandate to remove all Flock cameras tracking cars on St. Lucie County roads led local police to uncover more than a dozen suspicious cameras operating without permits.
Local residents told The Washington Post that they were alarmed that no one knows who owns many of the mysterious cameras.
Of the 14 cameras found, 11 had no obvious owners, raising concerns about who has access to sensitive data that bad actors could abuse. After the cameras were discovered, St. Lucie County Commissioner James Clasby told a local news outlet that there’s “potential for non-law enforcement to have cameras out there, and I’m not OK with that.”
But the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office ended up claiming three of those cameras, then refused to explain why they never obtained the required permits. The office did not immediately respond to Ars’ request to clarify whether it ever accessed data recorded by the cameras.
In Florida, police have repeatedly been caught misusing Flock cameras, sometimes tracking single cars hundreds of times for personal reasons. One officer in Fort Pierce, Josepher Crutchfield, accessed a Flock database 382 times while stalking an ex-girlfriend, the Post noted, while another cop, Christopher Goodson, reportedly nearly doubled that number of searches while looking for his estranged wife.
Two Pinellas County cops were arrested for invasive Flock tracking, with one, Travis Stanton, found searching a minor and the other, Karl Gwynne, stalking a woman he wanted to date. Across the US, the Post has found at least 50 cases of similar police misuse. As the problem has escalated, Flock has claimed that it has added safeguards to prevent police misuse of its databases, but experts warn they’re ineffective.
For St. Lucie County residents who frequently pass the unpermitted cameras, privacy concerns remain, as the county is giving owners 30 days to remove the cameras, seemingly with no questions asked. One camera already came down, a Post reporter confirmed, after St. Lucie County’s interim administrator Mayte Santamaria explained that the county put up “bright red” notices.
Cops remain uncertain if the cameras are actively collecting data, the Post reported. Until the deadline arrives—which for some cameras could be as late as October 20—county spokesperson Erick Gill told the Post that “staff plan to start placing plastic bags over the cameras.”
That small step could help obscure footage to prevent invasive tracking, but one resident, Ty Grant, told the Post that concerns remain—even about the camera that was promptly removed. For people potentially recorded by the cameras, it’s imperative that cops try to figure out who owns them, Grant said.
“That makes me feel very unsafe,” Grant said.
Todd Richter, who manages a fishing supply shop located across the street from a different camera, told the Post that he has no issue with Flock’s automated license plate readers, so long as it’s clear who’s accessing them.
“I’m not happy about it unless I know who it is,” Richter said, “and I don’t.”
The Roosevelt departed San Diego on Sunday, while the Makin Island group—carrying Marines from the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit—departed Monday.
Two American carriers, the USS George H.W. Bush and USS George Washington, are already operating in the Middle East. If the George Washington remains when the Theodore Roosevelt arrives, the United States will once again have three carrier strike groups operating simultaneously in the region.
That is no routine deployment.
A three-carrier presence gives U.S. Central Command the ability to sustain major air operations from multiple locations while reducing dependence on land bases that could themselves come under Iranian missile and drone attack.
The carriers bring fighter and strike aircraft, airborne command-and-control platforms, electronic-warfare aircraft and helicopters, while their accompanying destroyers provide additional missile-defense and Tomahawk land-attack capabilities.
The Associated Press reported that the buildup could place more than 20,000 U.S. sailors and Marines and hundreds of aircraft in the region.
The United States also has roughly 20 Navy ships operating in the region, according to the Journal, as American forces enforce the maritime blockade of Iran and protect commercial shipping through the strategically critical Strait of Hormuz.
The deployment therefore gives Washington substantially greater capacity to simultaneously defend American forces, protect shipping, intercept Iranian missiles and drones, enforce the blockade and conduct sustained offensive strikes if President Donald Trump orders another major campaign against Iran.
The buildup comes after Trump rejected Tehran’s latest ceasefire proposal and indicated that American strikes could resume following the November midterm elections if an agreement is not reached.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has also extended deployments of U.S. air-defense forces and elements of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, further increasing America’s ability to respond rapidly to another escalation.
Remarkably, this would actually be the second three-carrier concentration in the Middle East this year.
In April, during Operation Epic Fury, the USS Abraham Lincoln, USS Gerald R. Ford, and USS George H.W. Bush operated simultaneously in the Middle East. CENTCOM said the three carriers brought more than 200 aircraft and 15,000 sailors and Marines into the theater.
What made that deployment historic was what preceded it: before April 2026, the United States had not maintained three carrier strike groups simultaneously in the Middle East since 2003, when American forces invaded Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Thus, if all three carriers remain after the Roosevelt arrives, the United States will have assembled a three-carrier Middle East force twice in 2026 after going more than two decades without such a sustained concentration.
Ever obedient to the Globalist agenda, the UK government, led by the recently installed Prime Minister and Fabian socialist Andy Burnham, is attempting once again to overturn the will of the people and officially rejoin the European Union.
So, has the will of the people changed as the establishment and its corporate media lackeys are claiming? Not so, according to recent polling.
Burnham has made rejoining the EU a dividing line. The can of worms has been cracked open.
Various rejoin-supporting organisations have commissioned polls showing nominal support for the move. But scratch even slightly beyond the surface and it reverses.
Brits do not support the primary features of rejoining. To begin with, Britain would obviously lose its Thatcher rebate and net contributions would therefore likely sit at around £15 billion annually. Britain would most likely have to sign up to Schengen and full free movement. It would have to sign up irreversibly to joining the Euro at some point. The British public are no fans.
Nor are they fans of handing powers back to Brussels, a principle which they rejected even when the UK had preferential conditions before leaving. Look at the evidence.
Social unrest erupted across hundreds of French high schools and dozens of universities Thursday, forcing Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu to convene an emergency meeting to address the "urban violence."
Corporate media describes the rioters as "French students" or "high school students," while alternative media outlets such as Remix News and Visegrád24 claim the rioters are migrant kids.
"What began as protests demanding better conditions for students and teachers has devolved into violence at dozens of locations, concentrated at schools with large immigrant populations," Remix wrote in a report earlier.
Visegrád 24 wrote on X, "Young second and third-generation migrants have attacked firemen in Marseille, stealing their fire truck and setting it on fire."
"Migrant student youths have set fire to multiple buses and even fire trucks in the French city of Marseille as chaos spreads," Visegrád 24 wrote on X.
Remix continued:
Migrant student youths have set fire to multiple buses and even fire trucks in the French city of Marseille as chaos spreads.
The Marseille transport authority, RTM, said several of its buses "were targeted near high schools in the north and east of Marseille," that "drivers had to leave their vehicles in a hurry and one of them was assaulted."
The regional Marseille government said an "unacceptable line" had been crossed at Victor Hugo High School, where "the principal, the deputy principal, the general secretary and the team leader were assaulted and doused with gasoline," according to the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, cited by BFMTV.
France is descending into chaos as student blockades grip the country. Over 650 arrests have been made.
