robots and bombs

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Originally Posted by xstuntman So law enforcement just executed an American with a robot and an explosive device. Since when was that deemed OK? I don't believe its legal for anyone to build an explosive device, LEO or not although I'm not ATF or an attorney. Should we now expect Terminator robots to become an everyday occurrence? Blowing up Americans is the only answer? Who made that call? Does anyone else think this is extremely chilling? So maybe PD will start hanging bombs on drones too?

It would have been the Police Chief's call.....

In that regard and on one level it is not so different to a SWAT sniper being given the command to send a kill shot (which has been done for decades).

But you are right that the use of explosives and the robots (that were originally intended to prevent people being killed by explosives) is new. It is a symptom of the escalated capability of lethal technology available to police since 9/11. Since that time, American police have procured and been gifted large amounts of hardware that had been previously only available to the military.

The large number of recent combat veterans that have been employed by police departments have supplied the knowledge on how to employ that hardware. It is most likely that the idea to use the robot on the suspect in Dallas came from such a veteran.

The use of drones is inevitable (being such a combat multiplier).

It will be justified by "even if it saves a single one of my officers (or member of the public), then I will do it".

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robots and bombs