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Dallas police chief defends use of bomb-carrying robot to kill gunman

Xinhua, July 11, 2016 Adjust font size:

David Brown, chief of the Dallas Police Department on Sunday defended use of a bomb-carrying robot to kill a gunman who ambushed the police during a protest on Thursday night over police-shootings at black Americans.

Chief David Brown told media that he took the responsibility for approving the plan, referring to the strategy of deploying a bomb-equipped robot into a room where the gunman was holed up.

That strategy triggered the debate over when it's appropriate to use a robot to kill dangerous suspects instead of continuing to negotiate their surrender.

The police chief defended his decision by saying that other options would have exposed police officers to great danger.

In a related development, the Dallas gunman was reportedly thought to have been plotting a major bomb attack, authorities said Sunday after a new night of protests over police violence against blacks.

U.S. President Barack Obama will travel to Dallas, Texas on Tuesday to deliver remarks at an interfaith memorial service at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center after the the sniper killed five police officers in the city, the White House said on Sunday. Endit