Oh cops absolutely do it, cartels as well (although i think only inside central/south america). I meant non-state side

The army dropped bombs on coal mining strikers at one point as well, I forget the details.

The unionization of coal mining was perhaps the most violent of all of the unionizations. The bosses sponsored a lot of killing and everything else.

Just commenting to add the battle of Blair mountain to this list as well. You know they would’ve been using drones on those workers if they had em.