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Has anything been mentioned about if Dallas PD deployed a marksman/sniper. If the decision was made to just kill him a sniper would have less collateral damage. Maybe a hole in the wall behind the target. I don't know the layout of the area where this happened but most law enforcement shots are very short range.

The shooter was in a university parking garage with no clear lanes of fire from the outside. Sending SWAT into that situation would have been extremely dangerous and likely produced a similar result, but with more officer casualties. The robot was a pretty clever on the spot solution.

Cordon and Search. Night. I HATED GOING UP FLIGHT OF STAIRS. Even in day time because one never knows what's going to pop over the railing above you. An explosive in confine space is even more damn scarier