Date published:
July 9, 2016
"According to University of Washington law professor Ryan Calo, the situation doesn’t give rise to any new legal issues, but is unsettling for a different reason: We are okay with cops using lethal force in a justified situation, but we expect them to do so in a familiar way—with firearms. The use of an improvised robot bomb is unsettling in the same way as if the cops had used a knife or dropped an anvil on the shooter.
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This article by Center for Internet and Society originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on July 09, 2016 at 10:00AM