flock is encountering resistance everywhere;

 

 Americans are destroying Flock cameras in illegal acts of protest. As a headline from tech publication Gizmodo eloquently phrased it, “Flock cameras have a people-love-smashing-them problem.”

Resistance to the Flock surveillance camera system has been building up since last year. In Suffolk, Virginia, 13 cameras were destroyed from April to October of 2025. One man was arrested after being caught on cameras that he didn’t smash. In October of 2025, someone took down six cameras in Eugene and Springfield, Oregon. One of the cameras had an expletive-laden note addressed to “ya surveilling f-cks.” In La Mesa, California, someone broke two cameras; one was smashed and left on the median. “This happened weeks after the city’s Flock contract moved ahead despite local opposition,” noted the folks at State of Surveillance. There were other incidents in Greenview, Illinois, and Lisbon, Connecticut, among others.

The Flock revolt appears to be intensifying. Last week a FOX affiliate reported that two cameras exploded in Albany, Georgia. “Intentional criminal activity” is suspected. The Auto Wire rattled off a series of recent anti-Flock vigilante destruction:

The incident list has grown fast since mid-June. In Ashland, Ohio, crews found shattered solar panels and camera poles apparently struck by vehicles, bats, or clubs. In Houston, police are still tallying cameras found cut in half and spray-painted along Washington Avenue. Deputies in Barrow County, Georgia found three poles sawed clean through along a rural road. And in New Bern, North Carolina, two men caught on camera cutting down a freshly installed unit became local celebrities after the police tip line filled up with joke submissions for “Batman and Robin.”

Vigilante Flock destruction is a nationwide trend. It’s happening in “blue” areas, it’s happening in “red” areas, and it’s happening in “swing” areas. Unlike most nationwide acts of protest that include criminal behavior, this one appears to be legitimately organic.............more..........