San Francisco reverses approval of killer robot policy
notes, this about-face is pretty unusual, as the board's second votes are typically just formalities that echo the first ones' results.
The San Francisco Police Department made the proposal after a law came into effect requiring California officials to define the authorized uses of their military-grade equipment. It would have allowed cops to equip robots with explosives"to contact, incapacitate, or disorient violent, armed, or dangerous suspects.
Dean Preston, one of the supervisors who oppose the use of robots as a deadly force option, said the policy will"place Black and brown people in disproportionate danger of harm or death." In a newer statement made after the board's second vote, Preston:"There have been more killings at the hands of police than any other year on record nationwide. We should be working on ways to decrease the use of force by local law enforcement, not giving them new tools to kill people.
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