[dirtboy]

That's your opinion. Obviously, the police don't share it, because the police rarely resort to arson to obtain an end to a stand off, and when the police do resort to arson, they deny any intention to perpetrate arson.

I don't see a problem even if the police deliberately resorted to arson. Dorner is no less dead shot than burned. And he had not come out after a firefight, tear gas and having an armored vehicle knock down walls. He had already killed one deputy. Yet all some can do is caterwaul about him getting roasted.

[AppyPappy]

Deputy appeared to say “Burn it down”
“See. See. It’s proof they meant to burn it down. The cops said it”
Sheriff: We did not intentionally burn down the structure
“You can’t believe anything the cops say”.

[Cboldt]

-- I don't see a problem even if the police deliberately resorted to arson. --

The problem, in a nutshell, is that until there is a court decree, the police are not supposed to assume the role of executioner.

I don't expect you to see the police assuming the role of executioner as a problem, and it's not my intention to persuade you to change your point of view.

[penelopesire]

“I don’t see a problem even if the police deliberately resorted to arson.”

Well, it may very well be against the law for them to have done that, but I guess you are saying you don’t care if the police broke the law.

“Dorner is no less dead shot than burned.”

But you have no problem if he was summarily executed by a police force acting out of revenge, if that is the case? So police now get to be the judge, jury and executioner in our society?

” And he had not come out after a firefight, tear gas and having an armored vehicle knock down walls.”

It is entirely possible that Dorner was already gravely wounded when the cabin was torched. There were blood splatters on the inside walls reported on police scanners. How does the man walk out if he is laying in a pool of his own blood, gravely wounded?

“He had already killed one deputy. Yet all some can do is caterwaul about him getting roasted.”

We know he was a murderer, but the police in this country do not get to determine guilt, hand down sentences or exact revenge. We have to defend due process in this country, even when in doing so, our sense of divine or righteous justice is not served. If we cannot summon the moral courage to question authority in instances like this, then we will soon live in utter tyranny.