MAROKO133 Hot ai: Woman Convicted for Attacking Police With Swarm of Furious Bees Terbaru

📌 MAROKO133 Hot ai: Woman Convicted for Attacking Police With Swarm of Furious Bee

Look, evictions are violent affairs. When the state sends armed officers to kick residents out of their homes on behalf of private banks, things are bound to get out of hand. Dispossessed tenants have reacted with every means at their disposal: enlisting community organizers, filing lawsuits, and occasionally even barricading themselves with guns.

However, sheriff’s deputies carrying out one 2022 eviction really got stung — literally — when Massachusetts resident Rebecca Woods let loose a swarm of honey bees in order to stall the cops kicking an 80-year old man out of his home.

“Hey, hey, hey, she has a truck full of bees,” one deputy can be heard saying in recently released video of the eviction. “What?” another deputy replies, baffled. “She’s opening the bees,” another voice can be heard warning.

The estate — a sprawling, $1.9 million mansion in the wealthy and picturesque town of Longmeadow, Massachusetts — belonged to an elderly man undergoing cancer treatment, the New York Times reported.

For her part, Woods maintains that she was stalling the officers long enough for the homeowner to print off a stay of eviction letter at the local library.

A beekeeper by trade, Woods was recently sentenced to serve six months in the county jail for unleashing the insects on officers during the tense eviction.

“It really was just a sincere hope that [the home owner] would not suffer the humiliation and devastation of going through an eviction, of losing your home,” Woods’ attorney said on Sunday.

Prosecutors had initially charged Woods with seven felonies, each of which were nullified by the jury. Instead, she was found guilty of four misdemeanor counts of assault and battery, as well as two counts of reckless assault. The beekeeper maintains that she did nothing wrong, and has filed a notice of appeal, the NYT reported.

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📌 MAROKO133 Breaking ai: Police Are Using AI Camera Networks to Stalk Women Edisi

Police officers across the US are using automated license plate readers (ALPRs) to stalk personal romantic interests.

According to an analysis by the Institute for Justice, there are already 14 cases across the country where cops are alleged to have abused ALPR access to follow spouses, exes, and even complete strangers.

The timing is striking, with the majority of the stalking cases coming after 2024 — the year when AI-ALRP company Flock Safety initiated a massive expansion into over 4,000 US cities. Though Flock is claims to have internal safeguards to prevent this kind of abuse, the bulk of the 14 cases were uncovered by the victims, as opposed to the company or internal police investigations.

In Milwaukee, for example, an eight-year veteran of the Milwaukee Police Department named Josue Ayala resigned after allegedly using Flock to track his romantic partner, as well as the romantic partner’s ex, almost 180 times over just two months. The two victims only became aware they were being stalked after one of them looked up their license plate on the auditing site HaveIBeenFlocked.com.

Today, Flock operates in over 6,000 cities across the US, with over 76,000 license plate readers and counting. Given the proliferation of license plate readers and the power dynamics at play — police watch out for one another, after all — it’s not hard to imagine the number of active ALRP abuse cases are actually much higher.

“The fundamental problem with these systems is that they place private information about people’s movements over time in the hands of every officer,” said Michael Soyfer, an Institute for Justice attorney whose work involves challenging ALPR expansions. “Without the constitutional safeguard of a warrant requirement, that predictably allows officers to abuse their access to these systems for things like stalking romantic partners.”

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