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Source: The Guardian
For what experts are calling the first time in history, US police have used a robot in a show of lethal force. Early Friday morning, Dallas police used a bomb-disposal robot with an explosive device on its manipulator arm to kill a suspect after five police officers were murdered and seven others wounded.
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, Dallas police chief David Brown told reporters.
Peter Singer, a strategist and senior fellow at the New America Foundation who writes about the technology of warfare, said he believed this was a first. There may be some story that comes along, but Id think Id have heard of it, he said.
Others concurred. As far as I know, it appears to be the first intentional use of a lethally armed robot by the police in the United States, said Elizabeth Joh, law professor at the University of California at Davis.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/08/police-bomb-robot-explosive-killed-suspect-dallas
I'm not a fan of this action an will IMHO have unintended consequences.