San Francisco Cops Now Allowed to Use Robots to Kill People

San Francisco police have been given the go-ahead to kill people.

Yes, that's a real thing that just happened, and it's an actual turn of events that highlights the emergence of a new trend in policing.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Police Department is claiming that they can use the robot against suicide bombers. The majority of the city supervisors voted in favor.

In the past, police in the US have used killer robots. The Dallas police department was the first in the country to use a killBot to take out a suspect who had shot and killed five officers.

"There could be an extraordinary circumstance where, in a virtually unimaginable emergency, they might want to deploy lethal force to render, in some horrific situation, somebody from being able to cause further harm," said San Francisco Board of Supervisors member.

That is a very specific scenario. It seems like we'll gradually see the police use killer robots.

It's another sign that police are being given too much power that could easily affect civil rights. Privacy rights advocates objected to the San Francisco police force being allowed to monitor live feeds.

Last month, police in Oakland requested permission to arm robot with potentially lethal shotgun-like attachments, only to back down days later.

The San Francisco police department has a number of functioning robots. None of them have the ability to kill people.

The supervisors who voted against the motion were horrified by the new policy decision.

The supervisor said that the police force was local. This isn't the US military that we're giving money to.

There is a chance of misuse and abuse of this military-grade technology.

The president of the board pointed out that minorities could be the target.

He stated that most law enforcement weapons are used against people of color. I'm shocked that we're talking about this.

supervisor Hillary Ronen said at the meeting that it was a big deal.

She said that this could change our society in a big way.

Albert Fox Cahn, executive director of the surveillance technology oversight project, told WaPo that if one department took this step as publicly as San Francisco, it would open the floodgates.

The use of killerrobots was approved by the S.F. supes. When police could use them.

Oakland police want to arm robots with guns because we live in a Dystopian nightmare.