Thank you, Baker!
Drone attacks enroute, by Axom Enterprise, of Arizona
Company known for inventing the Taser halts its plan for a police drone that could TASER school shooting suspects after nine of the company's ethics board members resign in protest
Axon on June 2 said they were forging ahead with 'a remotely operated, non-lethal drone system' for use in schools, to stop mass shootings
The scheme had been suggested a year ago, and the board voted against it: CEO Rick Smith overruled them, in the wake of the Uvalde, Texas shooting
Backlash against Smith's decision was swift, with the ACLU tweeting that it 'was not the answer' and Smith having to defend the plan
On Monday, nine of the 12 members of its ethics board resigned in protest, even as Smith announced the plan had been put on hold
They said they could not work with a company that rode roughshod over the concerns of an ethics panel formed to hold the leadership to account
June 6. 2022
"Nine members of the 12-person ethics board of a Taser maker have resigned in protest at the company's announcement that they would begin trialing taser drones - despite the company rapidly backpedalling amid a significant backlash.
Axon Enterprise, founded in Arizona in 1993, said on June 2 that they were working on 'a remotely operated, non-lethal drone system' for use in schools, to stop mass shootings.
Axon first approached its ethics board more than a year ago about Taser-equipped drones, and the panel last month voted eight to four against running a limited police pilot of the technology. "
Rick Smith, the CEO, in May 2019 published a comic book entitled 'The End of Killing', which depicted drones at work in a school shooting in Arizona; stopping a terrorist in Syria; and preventing a 'suicide by cop' in Florida.
Smith, on the question of Taser drones, overruled the board's concerns.
'I am done waiting for others to solve the problem…
So we're going to solve it!' he tweeted."
"Axon said it was working on a drone that first responders could operate remotely to fire a Taser at a target about 40 feet away."
Smith has saiddrones could be stationed in hallwaysandmove into rooms through special vents.
A drone system would cost a school about $1,000 annually, he said.
Formed in 2018, the ethics panel has guided Axon productively onsensitive technologies such as facial recognitionin the past.
Giles Herdale, one of the remaining ethics board members, told Reuters he chose not to resign because he could have more influence 'if I am in the tent than outside it.'
Sauce: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10889749/Taser-maker-halts-project-equip-drones-stun-guns.html
INCOMING! Prepare for the killer drones!
The lunatic (Rick Smith, picrel) published a Graphic Novel to push this insanity… hey, is that Clown I smell?