Seattle City Council Holds Hearing on Police Drone Use

Seeking to draft rules

There was no shortage of strong opinions — or strong words — when a Seattle City Council committee took up the issue of unmanned police drones during an often heated hearing Wednesday.

"You're more dangerous than Nazi," Alex Zimmerman, an activist with Stand Up America, told the members of the council's Public Safety, Civil Rights and Technology Committee. "You're more dangerous than Communist; more dangerous than Gestapo; more dangerous than KGB."