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NYPD to train officers, buy equipment for drone threats during World Cup, America 250

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May 22, 2026

he New York Police Department announced that it is training officers and buying equipment to counter weaponized drone threats during the FIFA World Cup and America 250 celebrations.

The NYPD said Thursday that it is buying $6.5 million in drone mitigation equipment ahead of the events and giving counterterrorism officers special training.

She noted the proliferation of weaponized drones in the Ukraine and Iran wars and said that it is the one threat that “keeps me up at night.”

When asked whether there was a specific threat involving weaponized drones, Tisch declined to elaborate, but she said, “It would be a mistake to ignore the technology.”

The Justice Department is expected to issue new rules to allow local police departments to take down drones, which has largely been reserved for the FBI.

The World Cup is set to begin on June 11 in cities across North America. The championship match is scheduled for July 19 at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, just outside New York City.

World Cup-related events are to be held in New York City, including in Rockefeller Center. The city is also set to host several America 250 celebrations during the July 4th weekend, including Macy’s annual fireworks display.

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Morning Picket at Home of Rebecca Weiner

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Anonymous submission: The movement for a free Palestine can not and will not be locked behind or shut out by campus gates. Inside campus, outside campus — Palestine is in all of us and there will be no escape for manufacturers of genocide until Palestine is free. THIS MORNING, on the anniversary of the glorious Al-Aqsa Flood, Columbia’s top cop 🐷👮‍♀️ Rebecca Weiner was visited by her very own wake-up picket at 7:30 AM, at her residence in Brooklyn.

Weiner is NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Counterterrorism and their liaison in “Tel Aviv.” She boasts about receiving hourly updates from the NYPD’s own office in occupied Palestinian land, underscoring the financial and ideological ties between the IOF and the Amerikan police.

She was commended by Eric Adams for spearheading the brutal arrests of three hundred pro-Palestine protestors at Columbia University, including the use of live ammunition, a BearCat tank, and flash bangs grenades on protestors inside Hind’s Hall.

In May 2023, Wiener was appointed to Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, cementing the ties between the NYPD, the IOF, and the moneyed universities which, behind their closely surveilled gates, launder the despicable crimes of the imperial core.

Our demand is not “no cops on campus;” our demand is TEAR DOWN THE GATES. No more gentrification and policing in New York City to protect the garish strongholds of Amerikan empire; no more cops period; fuck your $2.90.

Weiner proudly boasts about her family ties to the Manhattan project. Her grandfather, Stanislaw Ulam, was one of the developers of the atomic bo

mb- tested on stolen Navajo land and used to slaughter and maim millions of Japanese civilians over generations.

No matter where you go, Palestine is everywhere. No cowardly Columbia University administrator, trustee, or faculty member will know peace while materially supporting the genocide and slaughter of Palestinian people.

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