As news
emerges that police officers in Dallas, Texas used an armed robot to
kill the suspected shooter in Thursday night's ambush, experts are
warning that it represents a sea change in police militarization that
only heightens risks to human and constitutional rights.
Dallas
Police Chief David Brown said Friday morning during a press
conference that police "saw no other option but to use our
bomb robot and place a device on its extension for it to detonate"
where the suspect had taken refuge in a parking garage as police
tried to negotiate with him, adding that he was "deceased as
a result of detonating the bomb."
The suspect,
identified as Micah Xavier Johnson, was killed around 2:30am Friday
morning after an hours-long standoff with police. The shootings
killed five officers and left more than a dozen people injured.
Johnson reportedly confirmed that he had acted alone and was not
affiliated with any group.
Many noted
that this appears to be the first time that domestic police have used
a lethal robot to kill a suspect.
Full
report:
It's not accidental that the arms
industries demonstrate new weapons designed to be used inside
urban areas for suppression of potential riots. There will be no
"outside enemy" in the future. The threat for the
dominant system will come from the interior, the big urban
centers. Soldier-robots will protect worker-robots and resources.
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