Dallas Ambush Shooting

[Easy Bakes 253]

5 Officers killed.

one dead nut with a gun.

3 others in custody 

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/08/us/dallas-police-shooting-live-updates/index.html

[Sabretooth78 808]

It's just going to turn into a vicious circle, and as usual it'll be the normal law-abiding citizens who suffer the most for it.  Wait for the blowback when the shooting victims transition from "just" being dogs and blacks.  It'll happen.

Neither the police nor the protesters are really to be respected at this point.  I know I don't particularly feel safe among the former and certainly don't think I would among the latter were I to run into any.

[LexusInfernus 908]

I just love how the police saw no other alternative but to strap a bomb on a remote controlled robot, drive it up to the shooter and then detonate said bomb. Real good policing guys, it perfectly validates the whole BLM argument. 

[elavery 1,013]

41 minutes ago, LexusInfernus said:

I just love how the police saw no other alternative but to strap a bomb on a remote controlled robot, drive it up to the shooter and then detonate said bomb. Real good policing guys, it perfectly validates the whole BLM argument. 

Probably a better fate than he would have met in the police holding cells.

[Easy Bakes 253]

36 minutes ago, elavery said:

Probably a better fate than he would have met in the police holding cells.

Seriously?

this guy just shot 11 police officers in planed out attack and your concerned about how he is treated?

one thing we wont have to hear now is his "manifesto" about what the heck ever his delusional brain thinks.

 

 

 

[elavery 1,013]

Just now, Easy Bakes said:

Seriously?

this guy just shot 11 police officers in planed out attack and your concerned about how he is treated?

 

No, I have no concern for his well-being whatsoever, he deserved what ever he got. Just stating that if he was brought in alive it wouldn't have been a picnic for him down at the station.

[LexusInfernus 908]

1 hour ago, elavery said:

Probably a better fate than he would have met in the police holding cells.

Ironically, thats one of the reasons why he did this. 

[icantthinkofaname 56]

It's awful. I was actually near where it happened around an hour or so before the protest started. It's a terrible coincidence that they call for an end for violence but use violence to murder officers like that...

[Mr Saturn64 742]

"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves" - Confucius

[Delta 88 262]

I thought there were two shooters? And apparently with sniper rifles?

Edit: Okay well I read the latest on this story today. One perp, not two - my bad.

[elavery 1,013]

There is almost always only one shooter. Early reports always seem to speak of multiple shooters, but it is never borne out.

[BLANKBLANK 4,414]

A VERY interesting Facebook post from a black police officer.

I think he hits the biggest elephant in the room: black on black crime and dysfunctional communities in poor inner city areas.

The one thing which vexed me, given recent news, was how there is this feeling around that there is a 1960s oppression lingering and attempts to recapture the Civil Rights Movement in its prime. I knew various things: high abortion rates, absentee fathers and higher unemployment. But piecing it all together; Jay Stalien has done a wonderful thing with this post.

[TakemeThere 5,834]

The one thing that is being downplayed and not discussed very much is the use of a robot to kill the suspect. I'm not about to suggest that such a course of action wasn't justified considering the circumstances, but it does set a precedence of sorts being the first instance of a robot being used to kill a civilian in the domestic realm(apparently this method had previous been used on an improvised basis by the military in Iraq).

It's quite clear that it's only a matter of time before such usage becomes inevitably becomes common place. I only pray that adequate safeguards are put in place before hand.  i.e. protection from remote access, limitations on civilian usage and multiple redundant failsafes for when these machine become completely autonomous.

[Easy Bakes 253]

9 hours ago, takemethere said:

The one thing that is being downplayed and not discussed very much is the use of a robot to kill the suspect. I'm not about to suggest that such a course of action wasn't justified considering the circumstances, but it does set a precedence of sorts being the first instance of a robot being used to kill a civilian in the domestic realm(apparently this method had previous been used on an improvised basis by the military in Iraq).

It's quite clear that it's only a matter of time before such usage becomes inevitably becomes common place. I only pray that adequate safeguards are put in place before hand.  i.e. protection from remote access, limitations on civilian usage and multiple redundant failsafes for when these machine become completely autonomous.

and thier sure they have the right person

[Sabretooth78 808]

That whole issue was the first thing I noticed about the story.  Yeah, it's been suspiciously quiet on that front.

[Easy Bakes 253]

they used a tool to do a job,nothing more. Its no different then taking him out with a sniper.

its not like the robot  made the decisions on it own.

 

[Delta 88 262]

5 hours ago, Easy Bakes said:

they used a tool to do a job,nothing more. Its no different then taking him out with a sniper.

its not like the robot  made the decisions on it own.

 

Yeah. It sounds like more of that technological sensationalism to me.