San Francisco's Board of Supervisors approved a controversial draft policy that would allow police robots armed with explosives to use lethal force against suspects as a last-resort option.
that would allow police robots armed with explosives to use lethal force against suspects as a last-resort option.The board approved an amendment from Supervisor Aaron Peskin that requires officers to at least evaluate the use of alternative force options or de-escalation tactics before deploying a robot, and limits the decision to deploy robots to certain high-ranking police officials.
Supervisors Hillary Ronen and Dean Preston were vehemently against the proposal. Ronen called it"incredibly dangerous” and accused the police department of fear mongering in pushing for the proposal.Those scenarios, put forward by SFPD Assistant Chief David Lazar, included the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, as well as confronting a suicide bomber. Preston was unconvinced a robot equipped with a bomb would be appropriate for either.
"We’re talking about a sniper in a fully occupied hotel, and the solution... would be to put a bomb-bearing robot to blow up that hotel?" Preston asked about the Vegas scenario. Of the suicide bomber, he asked, “We’re going to use a robot with a bomb to subdue a suicide bomber?”
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