I fear it's not long until police use deadly force to protect a robot dog from a criminal. In theory, police shouldn't be able to use deadly force to protect t

I fear it's not long until police use deadly force to protect a robot dog from a criminal. In theory, police shouldn't be able to use deadly force to protect the life of a (biological) police dog, but they regularly do, and the courts accept it. The argument given and accepted in court is like this; whilst a dog is not entitled to the same protections as a human, the suspect attacking the dog caused me to fear for my life and that of others. You could give the same argument about a robot dog.