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Watch This Surveillance Master Dissect a Murder From the Sky

An air-based spy system zooms in, swoops down streets, and goes back and forth in time as a drug deal in Juárez blows up below.

Bloomberg business news — How One Man Watches an Entire City

By

Drew Beebe

August 23, 2016, 10:35 PM UTC

The story of Ross McNutt and his controversial surveillance cameras, now hovering thousands of feet over Baltimore, is a fascinating one. Read it here.

Then see it here, as McNutt walks us through a 2009 murder in an alley in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. From there he builds an expansive theory of a drug deal gone wrong, rippling out from the single moment of the shooting his spy plane captured.