{"id":1756864,"date":"2022-11-30T11:17:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T16:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1756864"},"modified":"2022-11-30T11:17:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T16:17:58","slug":"remote-controlled-robots-with-deadly-explosives-approved-by-sf-board-of-supervisors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/remote-controlled-robots-with-deadly-explosives-approved-by-sf-board-of-supervisors\/","title":{"rendered":"Remote-Controlled Robots With Deadly Explosives Approved By SF Board Of Supervisors"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fremote-controlled-robots-with-deadly-explosives-approved-by-sf-board-of-supervisors%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1756864&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors, in an unprecedented move, has approved using remote-controlled robots armed with deadly explosives.<\/p>\n<p>The San Francisco Police Department claimed they would use such robots to breach buildings or \u201ccontact, incapacitate, or disorient violent, armed, or dangerous\u201d suspects when lives are at stake, according to a spokesman for the department. The Board of Supervisors\u2019 approval must now be passed in a second vote by the board and then get approved by San Francisco Mayor London Breed before it can be used.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the supervisors said they are concerned police will disproportionately use lethal robots on Black and other people of color,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/lgbtq\/1018836\/senate-passes-respect-for-marriage-act-putting-marriage-equality-protections-a-big\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Week<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Supervisor Connie Chan <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/police-san-francisco-government-and-politics-d26121d7f7afb070102932e6a0754aa5\">stated<\/a>, \u201cAccording to state law, we are required to approve the use of these equipments. So here we are, and it\u2019s definitely not a [sic] easy discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Democrat Shamann Wilson, president of the Board of Supervisors, contended, \u201cMost law enforcement weapons are used against people of color. I\u2019m really just stunned that we\u2019re here talking about this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Only three senior police leaders have the power to authorize such actions, and they can only do so after other tactics have been attempted or the suspect cannot be subdued any other way.<\/p>\n<p>Former Los Angeles Police Department Lieutenant Adam Bercovici <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/police-robots-kill-san-francisco-vote-authorizes-1849835184\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> The Washington Post, \u201cIf I was in charge, and I had that capability, it wouldn\u2019t be the first on my menu. But it would be an option if things were really bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Oakland Police Department had considered using similar robots but backtracked after the idea elicited harsh reaction. \u201cThe only known use of lethal robots by a U.S. police department\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/speedreads\/635079\/dallas-shooter-wrote-walls-blood-final-moments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was in Dallas in 2016<\/a>, when police used a robot armed with explosives to kill a sniper who had ambushed and killed five officers,\u201d The Week noted.<\/p>\n<p>That sniper was caught in a parking garage and killed by police with a robot-operated pound of C-4 explosive which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2022\/11\/30\/san-francisco-police-robots-kill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">guided by an extending arm<\/a> toward her suspect. Dallas Police Chief David Brown <a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/obituaries\/1018840\/former-chinese-leader-jiang-zemin-dies-at-96\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stated,<\/a> \u201cYou have to trust your people to make the calls. We believe that we saved lives by making this decision,\u201d adding, \u201cI appreciate critics, but they\u2019re not on the ground, their lives are not being put at risk by debating what tactics to take.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors, in an unprecedented move, has approved using remote-controlled robots armed with deadly explosives. The San Francisco Police Department claimed they would use such robots to breach buildings or \u201ccontact, incapacitate, or disorient violent, armed, or dangerous\u201d suspects when lives are at stake, according to a spokesman for the department. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1756867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1756864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1756867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}