It looks like some form of NLW (Non Lethal Weapon), perhaps a variant of the rubber bullet gun.

BTW: FPS ICE didn't look like a local NYPD and it turns out they aren't.

http://www.ice.gov/graphics/fps/

Nice photos, you got a lot closer than I did

my photos of the event

Thanks, yeah I was wondering if the "f" was for federal. The cops with camcorders were apparently from TARU.

I asked those guys about the pellets, they just said "it's paint" and didn't seem open to further discussion.

Here's how it works... When they see you vandalizing, they pop you with some paint. Then they know which "black clad anarchist" to arrest.

The video probably serves a number of purposes: training, prosecution, and national suspect databases. If I'm not mistaken, it is very much legal to videotape random people in public under the auspices of the Patriot Act.

great shot of the cop with the paint gun, btw.

Some police departments use paintball pellets with pepper-spray-type material inside.

Not sure if this is an NYPD tactic though.

Good pics. More on TARU.

(I used your pics in the post, with a link -- let me know if that's not ok.)

is that beck in the tv costume?!?

nice job.

TARU units operate like anyone else with a camera. If you are on on public property or can be seen from it you can be taped. This is within reason and changes slightly from state to state based on "expectation of privacy" rulings. As in where can you expect to be in private, yes in your bedroom with the curtains drawn and the door shut and no on 6th ave and 47th. And it isn't the Patriot Act that allows this, it's the constitution. Although I'm pretty sure they don't mention handicams.

NEWSFLASH: You have no right to privacy standing on a public street in midtown Manhattan nor do you have the right to control the capture of your own image in same circumstances. You have no control over the use of that image unless it is being used for various commercial purposes and even then not in all cases. This has nothing to do with the Patriot Act.

I was referring to the fact that the Patriot Act allows the government to start and keep a file open on you regardless of whether you actually show any sign of being a threat to the government. The point is that if you show up at a protest looking "suspicious" (or not), they have the right (under the Patriot Act, yes) to gather information on you personally and to keep the file open and continue surveillance on you without getting the permission of a judge.

More information on the paintball guns

Daily News: Arm Feds with Flyin' Colors

To Quote:

"The paint marks an individual so they can be apprehended later," said Dennis O'Connor, chief of staff for the Federal Protective Service, a division of the Department of Homeland Security.

But the dye is considerably more potent than the standard paintball.

"It goes through clothing and marks the skin," he said. "It's not going to wash off for several days."

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