‘Troubling’: LAPD Emailed Ring Customers to Get Doorbell Footage to Surveil BLM Protesters Just After George Floyd Demonstrations Began
The Los Angeles Police Department sent emails to Amazon Ring customers to gain access to doorbell footage surveilling Black Lives Matter protesters last summer, emails obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation show. LAPD Detective Gerry Chamberlain contacted Ring customers on June 1 following the May 25 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis…