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Anybody Else Disturbed by the Dallas use of the "Bomb Robot"?
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Posted on 07/08/2016 11:15:33 AM PDT by Rinnwald

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To: sailor76

It’s not a robot.


101 posted on 07/08/2016 11:49:31 AM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: Rinnwald

“Are you implying that I’m about to get overwrought or go on a shooting spree?”

Sheesh, it was just a figure of speech! That said, I do think you are over reacting to what the DPD did. They are not using “bombs!” If you really do think that, perhaps my figure of speech is more accurate than I intended it. We should really be a lot more concerned about cops being shot and for cops shooting people!


102 posted on 07/08/2016 11:50:07 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: bygolly

Gas on top of a parking garage would not have worked. Just hold your breath and it blows away.


103 posted on 07/08/2016 11:50:09 AM PDT by buffaloguy
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To: Buckeye McFrog
"http://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/14/us/police-drop-bomb-on-radicals-home-in-philadelphia.html"

I remember that.

POLICE DROP BOMB ON RADICALS' HOME IN PHILADELPHIA

PHILADELPHIA, May 13— A state police helicopter this evening dropped a bomb on a house occupied by an armed group after a 24-hour siege involving gun battles.

A 90-minute shootout this morning came after a week of growing tension between the city and the group, known as Move. Residents in the western Philadelphia neighborhood had complained about the group for years. The only known survivors from within the house were a woman and a child.

104 posted on 07/08/2016 11:50:24 AM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Re: “The Philly Police used a bomb on suspects in 1985 and burned down an entire city block.”

That’s just half the story.

Before the bomb, they spent like a whole day soaking the roof, and breaking windows, with fire hoses, trying to make life miserable for the criminals inside, and expecting the roof, floors, and walls to slowly collapse.


105 posted on 07/08/2016 11:50:45 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: servantboy777

The militarized police can be used against anyone including folks standing up for their Constitutional rights like happened in Oregon earlier this year.


106 posted on 07/08/2016 11:52:03 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: vette6387

“We should really be a lot more concerned about cops being shot and for cops shooting people!”

I’m pretty sure we all are. That doesn’t preclude discussion about this specific topic.


107 posted on 07/08/2016 11:52:17 AM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: nitzy
I had the same thoughts. If he was barricaded in a secure space and had no chance of escape, let him sit there and rot. If he comes out in any way other than on his knees with his hands up, light his ass up. I don’t get why they would send a bomb in to him if he wasn’t currently posing a danger to anyone.

The police are too militarized. They had the toys, bombs and robots in this case, and just had to play with them. Nothing like being judge, jury, and executioner, with time to spare for the donut shop.

This trend of use deadly force is troubling. While I am a 'law and order' person, I do find heavy-handed police tactics bad. Any one of us could just as easily be at the receiving end of it (e.g., swatting, looking for our guns, whatever).

108 posted on 07/08/2016 11:52:24 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Like herpes, Lyn' Ted and his supporters can always flare up again.)
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To: Candor7
He needed to be taken alive

Another couple of decades before he is executed? Has the Fort Hood shooter achieved room temperature???

No thanks. Kill them all, let God sort them out.

109 posted on 07/08/2016 11:52:32 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Rinnwald

Just another law enforcement tool to save the lives of policemen. I guess the robot delivery system is what has you spooked.


110 posted on 07/08/2016 11:52:37 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Rinnwald
declare war on our society, murder police, then a bomb is a perfect response.....
111 posted on 07/08/2016 11:55:08 AM PDT by B212
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To: Rinnwald

My understanding is the shooter was in a parking garage - which is a forest of 3-4 foot thick pillars.

Without knowing exactly where he was hiding, in such a large area, what sort of assault team would need to be sent in to get him? What kind of casualties would they take?

If I was police chief, I’d make the same decision about sending in robot bomb


112 posted on 07/08/2016 11:55:12 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: dfwgator

Didn’t work out well for the dead guy and was the killer of STYX too.


113 posted on 07/08/2016 11:56:14 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: Rinnwald

Happyfunbot has issues with people.

114 posted on 07/08/2016 11:56:32 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Rinnwald

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout

Check out the article above. A head shot is a lot harder to make then center of body mass. And like the two ****birds in the article above, this one was armored as well.
While following this horror last night, I kept wondering “How long is this going to last?”
Whatever it took to take this POS down, including explosives.
I’m on the good guys’ side. Now you’re supposed to say, “So am I, but ...”


115 posted on 07/08/2016 11:56:36 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: vette6387

FWIW, a bullet is an “explosive device “. It is much more directional than a bomb, but both bombs and bullets kill by sending out flying pieces of metal.


116 posted on 07/08/2016 11:57:12 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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117 posted on 07/08/2016 11:57:27 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: vette6387
They are not using “bombs!”

They are using explosives, sufficient at some unspecified radius, to kill a human, wearing body armor according to some sources.

What would you call it?

118 posted on 07/08/2016 11:58:09 AM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: sailor76
It wasn't Rizzo. Rizzo had not been mayor for five years. Update your memory.

http://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/14/us/police-drop-bomb-on-radicals-home-in-philadelphia.html?pagewanted=all

119 posted on 07/08/2016 11:58:54 AM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: Rinnwald

Robot lives matter.


120 posted on 07/08/2016 12:00:51 PM PDT by LydiaLong
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