Police robots and the law
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On July 7 Dallas officials used a robot to kill
the suspected shooter of five police officers.
The homicide of the suspect was precipitated
by a series of events.
After a prolonged gun battle and hours of
negotiations with police, the suspect, then
holed up in a confined area of a college
building, continued to threaten to kill more
and claimed to have planted bombs nearby.
Investigating officers decided the time
had come to incapacitate him. The police
secured a one-pound chunk of C4 plastic
explosive material to the extendable arm of
a militarized robot. Then, they sent the robot
into the confined area where the suspect was
concealing himself.
The police officer operating the robot
remotely blew up the attached explosive, and
as intended, the suspect was immediately
killed. This is believed to be the first time in
domestic policing that a robot carried out an
act of lethal force.