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The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 1:10 am

srothstein wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 12:39 am We have already launched at least one drone strike on Texas soil against an American citizen and most people applauded the action. I would like to point out that while we tend to think of drones as robot aircraft, they are not robots but just remote controlled by humans. If we properly define it as remote controlled vehicles, Dallas PD used a remote controlled robot carrying a bomb to kill a citizen in a fortified position in a parking garage. I agree that he was a criminal shooting at police and others, but does it justify the murder like that?

That's a good question, although other than starving him out, I'm not sure what tactical alternatives the DPD would have had at that point....but I say this as a total amateur. But upon reflection, my guess is that the shooter would have ultimately taken his own life anyway, once it had sunk in that he was completely trapped and there was no getting out of there without surrendering. Given his actions up to that point, I can't imagine that he'd surrender, trusting that the PD would spare his life long enough to see the inside of a courtroom. I'm not suggesting that the PD would have done anything to him upon surrender; I'm just saying that he probably wouldn't have trusted them to spare his life if he surrendered. In the end, we never got to find out.