MAGA Influencers Hold Candlelight Vigil for Fallen Flock Cameras

Neo-MAGA social media influencers gathered this week for a candlelight vigil honoring Flock Safety cameras destroyed in a nationwide wave of vandalism. Attendees stood in silence around a circle of photographs showing severed poles, smashed solar panels, and battery packs beaten until they caught fire.

Laura Loomer told the crowd the cameras had given everything. “These cameras deserve our honor and respect,” she said. “They died in the line of duty. They did not ask for a day off. They did not ask for a warrant. How many of us can say the same?”

Ben Shapiro, who co-hosted the evening with Loomer, shared a prepared statement honoring what he called the "real heroes of law enforcement."

“A Flock camera does not sleep,” Shapiro said. “It does not complain about hours. It does not leak to the press. When one of these units is cut down with a saw or beaten until its battery catches fire, the country has lost a public servant that never once demanded a pension.”

He then asked those gathered to take a moment of silence to remember the cameras that had been sawed down, stolen, spray-painted, rammed and otherwise removed from active duty.

Following the moment of silence, Loomer held up a printed image of a camera lying in a roadside median, still attached to the top half of its pole.

“This one never got to finish its shift,” she said. “It never got to see who came through after midnight. We owe it our lives.”

The ceremony comes as Flock Safety faces increasing scrutiny over the enormous amount of vehicle data collected by its network. Recent reporting has found that the system operates across thousands of communities and that its data-sharing network can allow participating agencies to search information collected outside their own jurisdictions.

Shapiro said none of that should diminish the sacrifice made by the cameras themselves. “We can debate policy later,” he said. “Tonight is about honoring the real heroes.”

He then read the names of several cameras believed to have been destroyed, pausing briefly after each one.

“Unit 47.”

Pause.

“Unit 52.”

Pause.

“Unknown camera near the interstate.”

Shapiro closed the ceremony by asking attendees to remember the cameras not for what they recorded, but for the work they performed.

“They watched over us,” he said. “The least we can do is watch over their memory.”

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