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San Francisco will allow police to deploy robots that kill (apnews.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I gotta call them and ask, "removed, how are you not a hostile occupying force again?"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Technically they've allowed it for some time, but only this last year did someone point out that it could be interpreted this way. It shouldn't be there at all (and to date it hasn't been used in this fashion), but I also suspect this will get changed in a year or two, knowing the climate in SF.