What it means when a bomb disposal robot is used as a weapon

A bomb disposal robot has, it seems, for the first time disposed of a human being. In the hours following Thursday night's mass shooting of 12 Dallas police officers (5 dead and 7 injured), police cornered the suspect, now identified as Micah X. Johnson, in El Centro College. After a lengthy negotiation during which the suspect, according to the Dallas Police Department, said he was upset about the recent police shootings of black men and wanted to kill white people, talks broke down and the police and the suspect exchanged gun fire. "We saw no other option but to use our bomb robot and place a device on its extension for it to detonate where the suspect was," Dallas PD Police Chief told reporters on Friday morning. SEE ALSO: Dallas police slammed for tweeting picture of'suspect' Police detonated the explosive device, killed the suspect and may have just changed law enforcement forever.