But it was carrying a succulent Chinese meal.

The top priority of a police force is and has always been to protect the property of the wealthy and corporations.

Capital has more rights than humans.

I don't think the robot has MORE rights, the question here is if it should have ANY rights.
A person is not allowed to constantly block another person either, and refuse to stop even when police order it?
I also don't think it is allowed for a robot to constantly block a person. That would be a malfunction.
IMO if the robots can't navigate properly to not be unnecessarily in the way, they should not be allowed. But be sure to have a phone recording of that before "retaliating".

In liberal democracies property has always had more weight than human lives.

Yeah, actually it makes sense. They are property and the pigs' objective is to protect property.

Hitchbot was more land based, bottle to the sea than robot.

I still mourn that guy 😭

They would. To join in.

Yes. If you're standing in the way of a wheelchair ramp someone needs and an officer asks you multiple times to move and you don't there should be recourse for that. I think it's pretty standard globally to have allowances for that.

Plenty of public places are protected and/or have areas you're not able to stand at all. Just because you're not on someone's private property doesn't mean you are entitled to be there or do whatever you want there. In the US we even have a loitering regulations that don't even require you to be specifically impeding something.

All that said, I think these robots should be more regulated and any companies using them are garbage.

Disorderly conduct is usually written so broadly that it can be anything the police say it is.

Being charged with disorderly conduct is basicly proof you did nothing wrong. If you'd done anything actually illegal they would've charged you with that.

If she kept moving to be in front of it, it's not just standing there as you're framing it.

I wonder if you could print out a sticker or something to speed this up.

it's philadelphia. i would be surprised if there wasn't.