The San Francisco police could use robots to deploy lethal force under a policy advanced by city supervisors on Tuesday that thrust the city into the forefront of a national debate about the use of weaponized robots in American cities.

The possibility is not merely hypothetical. In 2016, the Dallas Police Department ended a standoff with a gunman suspected of killing five officers by blowing him up with a bomb attached to a robot in what was believed to be the first lethal use of the technology by an American law enforcement agency.

Supporters of the policy, advanced by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors by an 8-to-3 vote, said it would allow the police to deploy a robot with deadly force in extraordinary circumstances, such as when a mass shooter or a terrorist is threatening the lives of officers or civilians.

Thoughts ?

nytimes.com/2022/11/30/us/police-robots-san-francisco.html

it would allow the police to deploy a robot with deadly force in extraordinary circumstances, such as when a mass shooter or a terrorist is threatening the lives of officers or civilians

cops will invent a damn robot to stop a mass shooting before doing it themselves

what the f*** is the point of police

watched a video of the hearing or whatever

like the only dude opposed to it said something like

“so let me get this straight…. you want to stop a suicide bomber, with a robot with a bomb? what exactly is the difference in risk between a bomb strapped to a person and a bomb strapped to a robot?”

the 🫡 makes everything funny to me idc

Will a person control it?

how long will it take to deploy?

if it takes too long the mass shooter gonna have emptied his clips

They're damn near creating Evangelions to wipe out the homeless

yeah this is like Steven Spielberg's RoboCop

They’ll be hiring the best of the best twitch streamers

Protect

Lmaoo. Every day police proving just how pointless they are.

I’ve pretty sure I’ve said this like 100 times in here now.

the year is 2027.
going outside is experiencing an endless slaughter between US-gladio stochastic white supremacists and remote-controlled suicide-bomb robot attack-dogs controlled by white supremacists.

Progressive cities 😍

This is incredibly bad

in for the robocop apocalypse

I will personally I, Robot those mf then

oh hell nah

Gonna send this thing after the homeless next:

SF mfs when they step outside voca.ro/1c1ajH9lQSCO

we are cops not soldiers

They not pointless

They fulfill they mission very well

1. Protect whiteness
2. Kill or enslave black & brown folks