[ameribbean expat]

Good move all the way around. Every time a robot shows up, perps now have to wonder what its carrying.

[Kevin in California]

You murder 5 police officers in cold blood and then you’re blown up by a robot bomb- TOUGH SHIT! They should have castrated you on the spot then afterwards, every Dallas police officer should have been given 10 mins apiece to kick the shit out of you.

If you ask me, this POS got off easy.

[ClearBlueSky]

The robot survived so I’m happy. Now fit one with some napalm. Messy but not as expensive or loud.

[Captain Compassion]

[PROCON]

But..but..but, what about all the CO₂ carbon pollution the bomb released?!

[Dalberg-Acton]

That sow just wanted more cops to be killed.

[Bratch]

Never bring a rifle to a robot-bomb fight.

[IamConservative]

They call him R2-C4. A little more grisly, but not different than a robot or drone with a remote control gun. The Obama Administration has blown up US Citizens with drones for years.

[chris37]

Cool.

[Hoffer Rand]

This is a good example of the wizard's first rule. Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. As if this guy is more dead because he died by C4 than if he had died by a sniper's bullet or by a SWAT police officer's bullet.

[RedEyeJack]

Claire Bernish is a punk... She implies unfairness with an argument for “due process”.

Five good men were dead and the killer was cornered but still wanted to fight. He got his fight. No, it wasn’t fair. So what? He wasn’t fair or brave when he ambushed the cops and deserved no more.

[Gamecock]

They had this contingency in place a long time ago.

[Raycpa]

The author uses a false choice fallacy himself. The issue is not whether there should be a trial before killing this person, the issue is what is the safest way to kill this person.

[AmusedBystander]

Another job lost to automation.

[Enterprise]

Micah X = ‘splodey head poster child.

[ichabod1]

I only fault them for blowing up an expensive robot when an RPG would have worked so well.

[catnipman]

Apparently good ol’ American can-do ingenuity is still alive and well in some quarters. Probably save at least a couple of innocent lives in this case, too.

[butlerweave]

Good Job !!

[dragnet2]

During the negotiations they told the suspect they were sending him some food as a show of good faith. They put the C-4 in a Burger King bag.

[IYAS9YAS]

In just one year, a pizza-delivering robot with the potential to save human life during bomb threats or similar situations became a casually-deployed, due process-stripping weapon of war against a U.S. citizen.

There's no such right to due process when you're currently in the commission of a felony. That occurs only after the fact, and they want to arrest, charge, and imprison/execute you for that. While you're in the active commission of a crime, all bets are off.