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The Honolulu Police Department spent $150,045 in CARES Act funding to buy Spot the robot dog from Boston Dynamics, the world’s sickest dogbot famed for backflips, games of fetch, and also hanging out with law enforcement. As the Honolulu City Beat reported last week, some feel that the expense was a bit excessive. “Toys, toys, toys,” one anonymous officer told the paper. “Everything we could buy, we would buy.” Two department officials can be seen defending the purchase in a video of a Honolulu City Council meeting in January. In a presentation, Major Mike Lambert and Acting Lieutenant Joseph O’Neal explained that Spot is intended for the POST program, “Provisional Outdoor Screening and Triage facility,” an encampment of tents to shelter people experiencing homelessness who are unable to quarantine in existing facilities. As the Star Advertiser has reported, thousands of people are living on the streets in Honolulu.

https://gizmodo.com/honolulu-police-department-used-150-000-in-cares-funds-1847092760?fbclid=IwAR32NTF0F3FK3j0b_FbseZeKdjPpfUiHJB3s8ytg7NdPe-yJgEn0PITEkXI

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