Comment on ‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago?
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours agoThe ones at Mar-A-Lago are unarmed.
My approach to the armed ones, particularly the tazer-equipped ones used by some US law enforcement departments, would be very different.
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 16 hours ago
They are also not autonomous. They have armed secret service agents very nearby. If the sensors on the dog alert them, trigger happy armed guards will come.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Joke’s on them, I won the robot dogs over with my pets and can turn the sentry turrets against the guards.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
That’s assuming I actually look like a threat, rather than someone infatuated with the weird robot dog.
It’s a golf park full of rich old people. I bet the dog-hecklers will come dozens per hour.
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 13 hours ago
You must be white or not from the US. The police in the US are taught to shoot first. Sometimes they get asked questions later.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
That is the way that the police work in the United States yes.
We’re not talking about the police, we’re talking about the Secret Service protecting the President-Elect of the United States… at a golf park Not only that, but a park where people have to be super rich since access to Trump (leader of the GOP and now President-elect) is figured into the membership fee.
And while the police are happy to gun down the rest of us shlubs, they treat rich people like they treated OJ Simpson after he hacked up Nicole Brown. When they don’t and they actually shoot a rich person, then high-powered (blue-haired) lawyers come and sue the precinct and county for enough money to collapse the GDP.
But I do hear you. Police in the US are bastards to the last.