US tech startup pitched tasing migrants from drones

A migrant rights group has condemned an American tech startup’s movie pitch that exhibits a stun gun-armed drone attacking a migrant crossing the US-Mexico border.

In the marketing movie obtained by The Intercept, Brinc’s founder and CEO, Blake Resnick, demonstrates how his company’s drones can be applied to detect, track, interrogate, and tase whoever is suspected to be a migrant.

The Latino actor in the online video referred to as “Jose” is approached by the Brinc drone as he walks in the center of a desert. 

Upon Jose’s refusal to clearly show identification, the drone fires a Taser at him. Jose drops to his knees and rolls on the ground. 

“A Peter Thiel-backed startup founder attached a taser to a drone and employs it to tase an actor participating in a Latino,” Jacinta Gonzalez, senior campaign director at Mijente, a Latino advocacy and migrant legal rights group, informed TRT Entire world on Monday.

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“This is a racist fantasy and this dehumanizing policing hardware should really never be utilised. We desire a very clear determination from the Division of Homeland Safety that they will not make investments our tax dollars on this sort of weapon.”

The movie was designed in 2018, when the Trump administration experienced started talking about a so-termed “smart wall”, a time period referred to as sensors, scanners, and drones together the border by American lawmakers.

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