Police circulate picture of wrong man after Dallas shooting.

[SvennoJ]

Nuvendil said:

SvennoJ said:
The speed of social media is both a blessing and a curse. It can help and also escalate.

What I find more questionable that in 2016 the best way we can come up with to arrest a cornered gun man is to use a remote controlled bomb. Real life imitating video games. Why do the police have robots with bombs.

Robots are usually bomb disposal.  They probably just put an explosive in its hands.  SWAT has explosives for breaching purposes.  That's what they probably used.  As for why, the guy refused to surrender and had a loaded high power rifle.  Breaching could have wounded and/or killed more people.  If your going to go down guns blazing the cops are not obligated to risk their necks if they can take you out without doing so.

True, yet I find it a worrying mentality not to exhaust all other options first before using lethal force. That's kind of a theme with these police shootings. Sending in a bomb after a few hours is a sign of admitting defeat. Plus the guy who did it got the easy way out. Luckily he seems to be enough of a nut job not to become a martyr (except to even worse nut jobs)
Maybe pressure from the media plays a role too, get it resolved quickly, no 2 day standoff media circus.