DENVER (KDVR) — An Arvada police drone had a run-in with Mother Nature and came out a bit banged up, but the pilot said everything went just as it should have.
In a video released by the Arvada Police Department, a combination of bodycam and drone footage shows the moment a red-tailed hawk took out the drone, which is part of the Drone First Responder unit.
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The officers were checking out a condemned shed until the intervention of one of Colorado’s most common birds of prey.
Footage from the grounded bodycam shows the pilot looking up, with someone in the video mentioning that it looks like a hawk was going for the drone. That’s exactly what happened, as the footage from the vantage point of the drone shows a clear sky before being knocked off stability, with one freeze frame of a hawk wing captured as if it were a horror film…