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On Fri, 8 Jul 2016 12:46:58 -0700 (PDT), True North
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"In Dallas the police decided they were not willing to risk a dog to
flush out the shooter so they attached an anti-personel device to a
robot and sent it in.
On one hand, I think it was an innovative way to kill a guy who needed
killing but, is that a dangerous precedent?
Will Hellfire missiles on helicopters or drones be next?"


I think in a situation like this you use whatever you have at your
disposal to save further police, civilian or even a police dogs life.
This was as highly motivated killer.

To you and Harry. That is fine until they are doing this with people
who have burned out tail lights.
In the 70s, SWAT was an elite force in LADP, then it got a TV show.
Now every little bedroom town has a SWAT team and they are wearing
tactical gear writing J walking tickets.

The idea that when the cops are out of ideas, they can send in a robot
that knows how to throw a grenade is scary.


It is militarization of the police with little control! Why does a local
police force need an MRAP? Why are they not all in the middle wast where
there are copious IEDs? Why can the police issue M-16 fully auto weapons
to a big percent of the cops? Even with handguns, they shot up the area
and killed two bystanders in New York and only wounded the suspect.
Admitted the black section of society brings on lots of the fear
themselves. All the rap songs glorifying killing police. And the fact
they are shooting each other with gusto. But even whites are getting shot
by the cops. Pretty much out of control enforcement arm of a government
out of control. Locally they are on the 3 or 4th chief of police because
of scandals in a 4 week period. Been goin on for awhile. Rodney King was
no paragon of virtue, but why was not every cop there fired? They did stop
an out of control officer, kicking a guy on the ground? Anybody without a
badge would have spent felony time.