I wonder what the fall-out from this will be ... I have no problem with taking the nut out, but there will be some who will call it excessive force ... whatever!!!
On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 5:14 PM, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/police-use-of-bomb-robot-to-kill-dallas-suspect-is-unprecedented-experts-say/ > > *Police use of ‘bomb robot’ to kill Dallas suspect is unprecedented, > experts say* > > The death of a suspect in the Dallas police shootings marks the first time > U.S. police officers have used a robot to kill someone, according to Texas > and national experts. > > Hours-long negotiations with the man broke down into an exchange of > gunfire, Dallas Police Chief David Brown said at a news conference Friday > morning. At that point, the officers deployed a robot armed with an > explosive. > > “We saw no other option but to use our bomb robot and place a device on > its extension for it to detonate where the suspect was,” Brown said. > > The announcement left law enforcement experts nationwide searching in vain > for a precedent. New America Foundation robotics expert Peter W. Singer > told the Associated Press that the suspect’s death was the first time to > his knowledge that police have used a robot to kill. Willard Oliver, a > professor of criminal justice at Sam Houston State University, a former > police officer and retired military member, said soldiers in Iraq had used > bomb robots against combatants, but American police officers never had. > > “Shocking. Stunning,” he said of the use of the bomb robot to kill the > suspect in the shooting deaths of five Dallas police officers. “But also > very innovative. So I guess in the end, impressive.” > > Pete Blair, a professor at the School of Criminal Justice at Texas State > University, said he had never heard of police in Texas employing a robot > that way. Blair said robots are fairly common in police departments across > the country, most often used to detonate bombs or explore potential > explosives. They can also be used to place detonating devices near locked > doors, for example, if officers are worried about getting too close. After > the *shooting in Garland* > <http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/03/us/mohammed-drawing-contest-shooting/> in > May 2015 for which ISIS claimed responsibility police used a robot to fire > water charges at a car that investigators worried might contain an > improvised explosive device, he said. > > Blair said robots have become more common in recent years because they’ve > gotten cheaper. Local law enforcement offices can obtain robots through the > Department of Defense’s Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services > program. Sheriff’s departments in Dallas and Montgomery counties, the > Dallas office of the FBI, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and police > departments in Comal County, Duncanville, Eastland, El Paso, Houston, > Nocona, Round Rock, San Marcos, Victoria and Wolfe City have all received > robots from the military, mostly intended for explosive ordinance disposal. > > Currie Myers, a senior visiting fellow for the Texas Public Policy > Foundation and a retired sheriff of Johnson County, Kansas, said he viewed > the use of the robot as reasonable given the threat to officers’ lives. 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