The limits of the LAPD's new drone technology were put in display outside Staples Center last night as rowdy L.A. Kings fans knocked the unmanned video-recording copter out of the sky and to the ground, where it was destroyed. There has actually been no confirmation that this was an LAPD drone, but witnesses at the scene described it as such.
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