The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday temporarily tabled a vote on whether to accept the controversial donation of a dog-like robot for the LAPD.
After a lengthy debate, Los Angeles City Council President Paul Krekorian postponed a contentious vote Tuesday on whether to accept the donation of a nearly $280,000“I’d like when it comes back to have the policies that are currently in place before the council as a condition to acceptance of this gift,” Krekorian said near the end of Tuesday’s discussion.
Delaying the vote by 60 days, he said, “would also allow us the opportunity to exhaust every opportunity to have responses to the questions that have been raised about existing deployment capabilities and so forth.”Police officials say that the device, nicknamed Spot, would be deployed only in a limited set of circumstances that require a SWAT team response.
Officials said it would be paid for with a donation from the Los Angeles Police Foundation. The city would be on the hook for future maintenance and repairs. Both the Board of Police Commissioners and the council’s public safety committee have approved the move.
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