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Anybody Else Disturbed by the Dallas use of the "Bomb Robot"?
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Posted on 07/08/2016 11:15:33 AM PDT by Rinnwald

“We saw no other option than to use our bomb robot and place a device on its extension to detonate where the suspect was”


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To: Rinnwald

Any deadly force, physical or otherwise was justified under the circumstances. The object was to take him down without any one else getting killed, and it worked. At least we won’t have to put up with a lengthy trial for this POS. Good riddance I say.


41 posted on 07/08/2016 11:28:21 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Rinnwald

Deadly force law is any means at hand. And there are many uses for explosives. Today isn’t the day for this bullshit. Take your beat up on the cops crap elsewhere. Would you be happier if he would have been shot?


42 posted on 07/08/2016 11:28:35 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up....)
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To: cymbeline

“He needed to be taken alive.”

Well the “explosive device” didn’t kill him outright, because the DPD Chief has repeated what he told them before he died several times. So while he won’t be going to court, they did get what appeared to be a lengthy statement from him before he died.


43 posted on 07/08/2016 11:28:37 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: Rinnwald

“In 2014, Albuquerque police reportedly directed a bomb robot to deploy “chemical munitions” (perhaps tear gas?) on a “barricaded subject armed with a gun,” and in 2015 the California Highway Patrol used a bomb robot to deliver a pizza to a suicidal man, which lead to the man’s peaceful surrender. Clearly, advances in technology have reasonably practical uses for law enforcement, but now that the Dallas PD has deployed a robot with a bomb to end a standoff, and North Dakota has legalized the use of police drones armed with Tasers and pepper spray, a national conversation over the reasonable limits of force with the aim to protect the lives of both police and the citizenry is well worth having.”

http://reason.com/blog/2016/07/08/dallas-pd-used-a-bomb-and-a-robot-to-neu


44 posted on 07/08/2016 11:28:38 AM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Rinnwald
I agree with every word you said.

Explosives have no place in a police dept except for EOD operations.

AFAIK, this is the 1st time a robot has been used to take a human life on US soil,maybe the world (except drones) which to me is a dangerous precedent too.

45 posted on 07/08/2016 11:28:47 AM PDT by sailor76 (GO TRUMP!!! Make America Great Again!)
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To: FredZarguna

A White-Hispanic robot manufactured in China with Korean parts


46 posted on 07/08/2016 11:29:11 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom yes I know john 3:16)
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To: tflabo

“Robot Lives Matter” Maybe Bot Lives Matter; BLM?


47 posted on 07/08/2016 11:29:18 AM PDT by rey
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To: vette6387

“Before you go postal...”

Are you implying that I’m about to get overwrought or go on a shooting spree? I assure you that I am not doing either of those things implied by that phrase.


48 posted on 07/08/2016 11:29:20 AM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: Rinnwald

Inventive and adaptive use of the tools at hand. Bravo! to the Dallas PD.


49 posted on 07/08/2016 11:30:01 AM PDT by farming pharmer (www.sterlingheightsreport.com)
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To: rey

Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto.


50 posted on 07/08/2016 11:30:33 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Rinnwald

I’m not a bit disturbed.

I’m glad an officer didn’t have to risk his life for that scum.


51 posted on 07/08/2016 11:30:46 AM PDT by KittenClaws ( Normalcy Bias. Do you have it?)
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To: commish

I think it was an overboard response as it cost them their bomb robot. What is wrong with using a good old fashioned rocket propelled grenade?


52 posted on 07/08/2016 11:30:48 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: Rinnwald

I’m disturbed they had to waste the explosives on that scum.


53 posted on 07/08/2016 11:30:57 AM PDT by Raebie
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To: Rinnwald

Kinda surprised they didn’t send in their Cyberdyne Systems Model 101.


54 posted on 07/08/2016 11:31:02 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: cymbeline

Hillary’s hideous cackle over and over until the person capitulates.

Too inhumane to even be considered.


55 posted on 07/08/2016 11:31:20 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: rey

“Robot Lives Matter” Maybe Bot Lives Matter; BLM?

How about just..”BM”


56 posted on 07/08/2016 11:31:29 AM PDT by AFret.
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To: Rinnwald

Extraordinary situations require extraordinary solutions. I hope they get a new robot soon................


57 posted on 07/08/2016 11:32:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: Candor7

It’s idiotic to think you could capture a man with a battle rifle with tasers and water hoses.


58 posted on 07/08/2016 11:32:13 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up....)
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To: Romulus

“Law enforcement and combat are two different things, or ought to be.”

Thanks. Several posters here are agreeing with the point I am trying to make. A line has been crossed, and it’s always justified by the extreme cases first.


59 posted on 07/08/2016 11:32:34 AM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: Romulus

They WERE two different things. What is and what ought to be are also two different things.


60 posted on 07/08/2016 11:32:39 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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