To kill an armed suspect in the Dallas police shooting, the police used a rather unusual object. A robot.
During a standoff between police and one of the suspects, the police deployed a robot which delivered and detonated explosives killing the suspect. The suspect has been identified as Micah Johnson of Mesquite, Texas.
The 25-year-old was a military veteran who served in Afghanistan. It was found that he was "the lone shooter in this incident".
Dallas police Chief David Brown called the plan a well-thought-out and evil tragedy.
The incident that left five officers dead saw the usage of such a 'high-tech tool' in domestic policing for the first time.
Dallas police chief informed the American press that police offers tried negotiating with a suspect but nothing fruitful came out of it. Due to the danger to officers, "we saw no other option but to use our bomb robot and place a device on its extension for it to detonate where the suspect was," Brown said.
"Other options would have exposed our officers to grave danger. The suspect is deceased as a result of detonating the bomb", he added.
At least three unmanned ground vehicles, or robots were obtained in April 2014 through a federal program that lets law enforcement buy surplus military equipment, reported Fortune .
The Dallas police is said to have spent $10,000 for each robot, according to the Defense Department data.
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