LA police request private Amazon Ring BLM protest footage

Occurred: February 2021

Los Angeles police came under fire for asking users of Amazon's Ring smart home system for their camera footage of protests following the 2020 death of George Floyd.

Digital rights non-profit the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) discovered through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that the Los Angeles Police Department had asked users of Amazon's Ring smart home system for camera footage from the 2020 Black Lives Matter