You might have come across this
video on social media.
It features a Boston Dynamic's
robot, the dog looking one being
used by the NYPD in public housing.
Now they were called in response to
some sort of domestic dispute.
They ended up arresting someone,
but the point is people who were in
the area and witnessed this
robot were pretty terrified for
a good reason.
It is a terrifying looking thing
and seeing it being utilized by
police can be incredibly scary.
Now, a spokesperson for
the New York Police Department said
that the robot dog was on standby,
but not used.
Don't worry everyone,
it wasn't used during this domestic
dispute at East 28th Street
on Monday afternoon.
After a man allegedly barricaded
himself inside a room with a mother
and her baby.
Officers showed up and
convinced him to let them exit.
The man was arrested for
weapons possession police said.
So look,
this is how it starts, right?
They try to sell this kind of
technology being used by local
police departments by tying it to
something that sounds awful.
No one wants to defend someone
who's involved in a domestic
dispute, especially if there's
illegal weapons involved, but
at what point Nando do they start
using weaponized drones on
American people.
Because- >> I just
don't understand how these people
never seen a movie like the Of
robocop wasn't that the robocop is
a good thing.
They know the robot goes crazy and
starts killing all the executives
in the company.
And the robot cop was no good.
That's the And it's like there's
this genre of thing that happens
these days like Elon Musk this week
was tweeting about like, hey, we're
going to build a Jurassic bank.
And it was like, did you
guys not watch Jurassic Park?
The lesson of that movie is like
don't do that.
Don't do that.
>> Don't build it.
>> Don't build,
it's the lesson of the movie
because you can't control it.
So the robot cop is just not a good
thing.
Go watch Robocop that is the wrong
lesson to be taken from that movie.
So yeah,
this is absolutely terrifying.
Like it's what you said,
it terrifies people because it's
incredibly antisocial.
>> Mm-hm.
>> Police should be members of
the society like they should be.
They should not be these faceless
machines that
are just controlling us.
Like, hello, hello.
>> Yeah.
>> Like that's the whole point of
police, it's to help with social
order not to be these faceless
automatons who can God knows what
they're going to do to us.
>> Right and so there are two,
well, two issues that I want to
bring up, but there are of course
many issues to this.
First off, when you look at what
happened in our conflicts abroad.
After the emergence of weaponized
drones, you have more and
more civilians dying because
essentially like killing someone is
you're in a remote place and
you press a button then you do
a drone strike and then when you
have civilians dead as a result of
that drone strike, it's nothing
more than collateral damage.
That's literally what the US
government referred to dead
civilians as collateral damage,
which is just absolutely
disgusting.
And then there's also
a surveillance component to this as
well and a cost component.
Those robots cost $75,000 each.
So, when we're dealing with
a situation where Americans
are homeless, we keep hearing that
our resources are limited.
How is it that local police
departments can spend 75 or $74,000
on each one of these robots.
And then there's the surveillance
element to it as well,
because this mobile dog comes
equipped with automated sensors,
lights and cameras capable of
collecting limitless data.
And again, it's sold for
$75,000 and
that's a clearly a huge problem.
And so, look when we see this kind
of technology deployed abroad,
it later gets used by local police
departments.
There's a very clear reason why we
have militarized police in
the United States.
And we're already seeing
the beginning phases of that with,
Boston Dynamics selling these
products and these robots to local
police departments.
And it's vicious, it's awful and
I think you're absolutely right
Nando there's like that anti social
element to it as well.
That just makes it dangerous.
These are police who are supposed
to work for us and keep us safe and
honestly what we're seeing is
is really the opposite of that.