[minimaxir]

Via the Guidelines:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

[cmontella]

I would consider using a robot bomb to kill a suspect an "interesting" (for scary values of interesting) new phenomenon: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/dallas-pd-using-a-bomb-robo...

[greenyoda]

And that aspect of the story is indeed being discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12055492

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12057421