Many wondered if bomb-equipped robots were a sign of things to come after Dallas police used one to kill Micah Zavier Johnson
. The 25-year-old Johnson killed five officers and injured nine others over his reported anger about several high-profile cases involving the killing of black men by white police officers across the United States.
“‘If lethally equipped robots can be used in this situation, when else can they be used?” Elizabeth Joh, a University of California at Davis law professor who has followed U.S. law enforcement’s use of technology, asked in thearticle. “‘Extreme emergencies shouldn’t define the scope of more ordinary situations where police may want to use robots that are capable of harm.”
“But then again, there's that bomb threat,” Pappalardo wrote in 2016. “When Johnson introduced explosives into the mix, it's hard to argue that ‘no one was in immediate danger.’ Any officer getting close to that part of El Centro would have been in danger of a possible explosion. That is not just some legal dodge, especially not when the emergency rooms are filled with victims and officers are trading gunshots with the perpetrator.
Add the financial factor to the rare number of scenarios in which blowing up an expensive robot to neutralize a threat is the obvious way to go, it's easier to see why killer robot usage has yet to proliferate in local police departments since 2016.
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