December 6, 2022, 8:06 PMPeople take part in a demonstration about the use of robots by the San Francisco Police Department outside of City Hall in San Francisco, on Dec. 5, 2022.San Francisco supervisors have nixed their plan to allow police officers to use robots to kill in emergency situations, a board member“The people of San Francisco have spoken loud and clear: There is no place for killer police robots in our city,” supervisor Dean Preston told ABC News in a statement.
“Allowing them to kill remotely will lead to more mistakes, and as we have seen many times before with other police weapons, to more frequent use,” ACLU NorCal said.
Alyssa614Parker Hoping for a New Life. But NOOOOOO! Maybe, Oregon or Washington, the future, looks like re-runs.
To kill them would be foolish and possibly what they actually want. We could use criminals! There are bridges that need to be built, chicken coops to be tended to! Harvesting and restoration needed on planet Earth! I say tranquilize the jerks! ☝🏼
I guess they finally watched RoboCop.
Missed opportunity
I read this title and thought someone was just doing an article on Robocop.
No robocop for you 👍
They would have been protesting years ago if they’d only listen to myself and Basil_Rosewater rant about how they’re going to arm robots for over 5 years and in earnest since the lockdowns. CanaryCryNewsTalk
This shouldn’t need saying wow San Francisco
Wild that we've reached a point in our society where this is something that needs to be left up to a vote, because there aren't enough democracy-supporting individuals within the government to realize the idea is garbage from day one.
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