Happyfunbot has issues with people.
Posted on 07/08/2016 11:15:33 AM PDT by Rinnwald
“We saw no other option than to use our bomb robot and place a device on its extension to detonate where the suspect was”
It’s not a robot.
“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!
Gas on top of a parking garage would not have worked. Just hold your breath and it blows away.
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.
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.
The militarized police can be used against anyone including folks standing up for their Constitutional rights like happened in Oregon earlier this year.
“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.
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).
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.
Just another law enforcement tool to save the lives of policemen. I guess the robot delivery system is what has you spooked.
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
Didn’t work out well for the dead guy and was the killer of STYX too.
Happyfunbot has issues with people.
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 ...”
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.
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?
Robot lives matter.
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