The secretive group behind the remove of the London government cameras is dubbed “Blade Runners” after the special agents from the iconic sci-fi film Blade Runner (1981). They have “vowed to stop at nothing until they’ve ‘taken down EVERY one of Sadiq Khan’s low-emission cameras.” Organized though social media groups, the Blade Runners have crowdsourced maps of cameras online and openly share tips on how to disable the cameras. The Blade Runners use gardening euphemisms to discuss their planned activities, such as referring to the cameras as “weeds,” taking them down as “pruning” or “trimming.”
