Clovis Unified students who walked out of campuses Tuesday to protest ICE noticed a peculiar police car encircle them as they marched to Shaw Avenue. The vehicle looked like any other marked Clovis police patrol vehicle, except for the cameras affixed to its roof.
The police department used the vehicle — known as the Camera-On-Wheels car, or COW for short — and city network of approximately 500 cameras to monitor the walkout in real time and record the event.
The COW car has two remotely operable surveillance cameras affixed to its roof that allow the vehicle to video record a 360-degree view of its surroundings…