Was killing the Dallas shooter with a robot the right choice?
Last week in Dallas, Texas, shots echoed through the crowded downtown scene of what started as a peaceful and cooperative protest. Things went from calm to chaos very quickly, leading police to falsely identify a suspect on social media, pursue a vehicle with over a dozen patrol cars on the freeway, and to fatally bomb the alleged shooter after a standoff and exchange of gunfire later that evening.
In a matter of seconds, the scene went from calm to chaotic. A suspect was identified by the department on Twitter, along with a photo that appeared on every news network covering the situation. Unfortunately, that suspect turned out to not only be totally innocent, but to have been actively assisting the police on the ground after the shooting started. In another part of town, over a dozen patrol cars pulled over and apprehended people that they believed were involved in the shooting, having fled the scene shortly after.
Through all the chaos, the person the police now believe acted alone, Micah Johnson, was cornered in a parking garage and killed with an explosive using a robot designed to assist soldiers on the battlefield.
Indeed the use of the robot, which required a human to give the command to detonate the C4 explosive it was carrying, ended the standoff without any further police lives lost.
The Dallas Police Department used a bomb-wielding robot to kill Micah Johnson. The explosion enabled officers to incapacitate him without putting them within line-of-sight to Johnson, a move that Dallas’ mayor and police chief insist saved lives.
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