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A standoff between police and one of the suspects in a Dallas shooting
that left at least five police officers dead and seven others wounded
Thursday night ended after the suspect was killed when a robot delivered
and detonated explosives where he was holed up, according to local law
enforcement officials.
"We saw no other option but to use our bomb robot and place a device on
its extension for it to detonate where the subject was," Dallas Police
Chief David Brown said at a news conference Friday morning. "Other
options would have exposed our officers to grave danger."
Attempts by a hostage negotiator to convince the suspect to surrender
were unsuccessful and the man exchanged fire with the police during the
standoff, Brown said. Three other suspects are currently in custody,
according to police.
The shootings in Dallas occurred at the end of an otherwise peaceful
demonstration spurred by police shootings this week that killed Philando
Castile in Minnesota and Alton Sterling in Louisiana.
Police departments increasingly have used robots dedicated to help
disarm bombs, but this appears to be the first time a similar bot has
been used to deliver an offensive explosive in a domestic policing
action.
However, some experts have pointed to similar tactics in war zones. In
his book "Wired for War," New America senior fellow Peter Singer, who
specializes in the future of security, noted incidents when American
troops in Iraq jury-rigged primitive remote-controlled robots to deliver
antipersonnel mines into alleys where they believed insurgents were
hiding out.
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