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The case stems from a lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles alleging that the unit was run by a “SWAT Mafia” of influential veteran cops who “glamorize the use of lethal force.”

According to Roberts, the United States needs to build up “the most lethal force in the world,” a force Roberts claims he would like to be “the most sparingly used.”

From Salon

He also said that women should not serve in combat roles because he argued it had not made the military "more effective" or "more lethal".

From BBC

Gonzalez said deputies could only respond with lethal force in a life-and-death situation.

A rare and lethal brain disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob causes changes in brain tissue and affects muscle coordination and memory, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

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