NYPD sends terrifying robot dog back to the kennel after public backlash

A terrifying robot dog that’s been prowling New York’s streets over the past few months is being sent back to the pound. The NYPD had been leasing the quadruped from Boston Dynamics since last year, but canceled the contract last week after a public backlash. “This is a casualty of politics, bad information, and cheap sound bytes,” John Miller, the department’s deputy commissioner for intelligence and counterterrorism, told The New York Times. “We should have named it ‘Lassie’.” Nah they really got these robot police dogs in NYC. This is wild pic.twitter.com/iG7CTPFevH — THEE DON❤️‍🔥 (@1800SPOILED) April 12, 2021 The device…

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