Anti-Flock Hawk Topples Truckload of Cameras, Drops Them Off at Sheriff’s Department

Originally published via Armageddon Prose:

“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”
-Mark Twain

The patriot’s name is Jevon Martinez, known to social media as “Johnvon Thechamp.”

Via KOB 4:

“Bernalillo County Sheriff’s deputies took a man into custody Wednesday after he showed up outside their headquarters with multiple Flock cameras in the back of his pickup truck.
Authorities arrested Jevon Martinez for damaging Flock cameras in Rio Rancho in May. Then, Wednesday, he posted video on social media appearing to show him driving around Albuquerque and taking down automated license plate readers once again.
In those videos, he comments that since the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office ended its contract with Flock last month, those cameras should no longer be out on the streets*.
“Just for the record, I am not stealing these. I am not destroying them. I am simply returning them to the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department,” he said in one video.
Martinez, who goes by “Johnvon Thechamp” on social media, said his issue isn’t with BCSO, but rather with Flock, whose automated license plate readers have become a major topic of controversy around the country.
The cameras can track locations and store identifying information about your vehicle, and there have been concerns police have been using the cameras for personal matters such as tracking former romantic partners.
“Is this a crime? I don’t think so. Neither does the public. I’m just liberating my people from tyranny,” said Martinez in a video posted to social media.”

*The service that Mr. Martinez was providing to the city of Albuquerque in the county of Bernalillo was simply to return the already-decommissioned Flock cameras, which he artfully terms “tyranny trees,” to police headquarters in order to have them packed and shipped back to Flock in an orderly manner.

Albuquerque man takes it upon himself to remove Flock cameras from around town, deposit them at sheriff's office for processing pic.twitter.com/8f61x8QwWm
— Thomas Paine Reloaded™ (@BenBartee) September 7, 2026

Via Futurism (emphasis added):

“Weeks after Bernalillo county officials cancelled their contract with the controversial surveillance company Flock earlier this year, Martinez noticed the automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) were still up. In a series of videos posted on social media and flagged by KOB4, Martinez filmed himself tearing the camera towers down in order to return them to their rightful owners.
“Since [Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department] is busy — I know BCSO is busy, everyone who works for BCSO, I know you guys are busy, so I went ahead and helped you out,” Martinez says while driving his pickup truck, the bed of which is notably full of ALPR parts.
“We got a bunch of these bad boys,” he says in another video, showing off a truck bed stuffed to the brim with tower parts. “Let’s see how much I can get in one day. That’s gonna be the challenge for everyone out there.”
Playing the helpful citizen, Martinez drove his literal truckload of ALPR bits directly to the Sheriff’s department, where he was promptly taken into custody.”

As Harrison Smith of the entity formerly known as Infowars noted in his coverage, even after municipalities cancel their Flock contracts, the company’s modus operandi is to leave the cameras up so that the company can continue the mass surveillance anyway, presumably compiling and selling that data to anyone willing to pay for it — a client list that almost surely includes domestic intelligence agencies and probably foreign ones as well.

At the end of the day, shadowy tech companies probably incubated by the CIA Flock selling everyone’s data to anyone with the cash, even geopolitical foes who hate America and Americans, is just another way to say “free market.”

Let’s not get all communist.

After all, the oligarchs offshored all the manufacturing years ago; warrantless AI mass surveillance, along with weapons manufacturing and wanton Wall Street gambling, is the only thing really propping up the stock market at this point.

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Because we’re under the jackboot of anarcho-tyranny, whereas in a sane world this guy would be given a medal or at least a pat on the back for cleaning up the artifacts of oppression littering the Albuquerque streets, he’ll instead be prosecuted and probably get jail time.

As I’ve argued before, as radical as it might sound to normies, the “social contract” — in its current form, in 2026, however legitimate it might or might not have been at some point in the idealized past — is 100% a spook fantasy sold to the rubes to keep them pacified long enough until the digital gulag doors clink closed and their totalitarian control no longer hinges on pretending that the “social contract” exists.

If the law doesn’t apply to the Epstein class or George Soros’ feral inner city pets who get to run wild through the streets with impunity because the DA he installed won’t prosecute them for stabbing random white people on public transportation, then why should we pretend that it applies to you and me?

Once you realize that the government would classify America’s Founding Fathers as “domestic terrorists” if they were alive today, the milestone we’re at on the road to totalitarian hell gets a little clearer pic.twitter.com/4ETtVjPOkd
— Armageddon Prose (@ArmageddonProse) September 5, 2026

Benjamin Bartee, author of Broken English Teacher: Notes From Exile (now available in paperback), is an independent Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs.

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