3 Teens ARRESTED For Allegedly SAWING DOWN FLOCK Cameras! 😳🪚 #FLOCKCameras #Shorts
The short version: Three South Carolina teens face felony charges for cutting down Flock cameras, a stunt that torches goodwill and hands police a PR gift while doing nothing to fix surveillance policy.
Our Take
Credit to ClassE for surfacing this one: three teenagers in Chester County, South Carolina are now facing real charges — over $5,100 in property damage and a battery fire, according to the reporting — after allegedly sawing down Flock Safety poles. We get the frustration. These cameras went up with little to no public debate in a lot of towns, and residents are right to be angry about being tracked block by block without a vote. But vandalism isn't strategy. It's a felony record for a teenager, and it's a gift to every police chief and Flock sales rep who wants to paint critics as reckless kids with power tools instead of citizens with legitimate constitutional concerns.
The uncomfortable truth is that destroying hardware doesn't touch the actual problem: the data pipeline, the vendor contracts, the lack of oversight on who can query your travel history and why. Flock replaces the pole, bills the county, and the surveillance network keeps humming along — now with a news story that makes the whole opposition look like arsonists instead of organizers. If you want cameras gone, the fight is in city council chambers, public records requests, and local elections, not in the dark with a hacksaw.
If you're serious about pushing back, start by knowing what's actually watching you. Check our camera map to see what's been deployed near you, and hit up our take-action page for the legal, effective ways to organize against ALPR expansion in your community.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of ClassE, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.