It’s not just governments and crop-dusters using drones. The ability to put together your own flying camera for a few hundred dollars has led drones to be featured at demonstrations around the world, as protestors attempt to document the various unpleasant things the powers-that-be do to get them out from wherever they are. The above video comes from recent protests in Istanbul’s Taksim Square $SQ, and the drone in question was apparently shot down by police minutes after the sequence was filmed.
These videos, from a demonstration in Poland, got some attention in 2011:
You saw them over Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square during 2011 protests alleging rigged elections:
And even early efforts in New York during the Occupy Protests that didn’t quite get off the ground (start a little after the second minute):
