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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Every major gathering has stuff like this behind the scenes. Not just in America.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It'd probably usually only be for high profile diplomatic/political events, or when a threat is specifically called in, outside of America, not just your average sports team needs a sniper on thier payroll 😅

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Well the police would generally do it. That's how it generally is in the US too

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

It seems so. Here’s an article with some more information and a higher resolution image (though the image still looks like CGI to me).