If there is ever a time that the police opened fire on me, I'd hole up in the house and shoot back. They've already made up their mind to kill you......might as well bring a few along for the ride.
Look, Chris Dorner is was a scumbag and society's better off with his death.
However, we have a rule of law in this country. We are a country of laws; not men. The police are no better than you or I, and the police do not have shoot on sight authority.
I cannot believe people on FR don't see a problem with LAPD slamming into two vehicles, shooting (AT) three people and hitting 2. Opening fire on an individual without positive ID and then intentionally burning down property that didn't even belong to the alleged, as of then unidentified, perp.........oh yeah and didn't know if there were hostages/others in the cabin.
Yay giddy FR glee that the guy the think is a cop murderer is dead and the police posed more menace to the public at large than the perp.........yet, they'll be the first one to bitch when it's their rights that are being trampled.
It's fine to assume guilty until proven innocent when the alleged perp votes democrat (and apparently Huntsman and GHWB). They lap up the media (they claim to not trust) story and hang on every somber cop's statement.
Who cares if a property owner lost their property because the police set it afire.
Until that is the shoe is on the other foot......then it's the property owner all the way. Randy Weaver was innocent. The Branch Davidians were unjustly slaughtered. The guy that shot Tiller was defending innocent life. The NOPD had no right to confiscate firearms during the riots and killings in the aftermath of Katrina.
I've come to realize that many a FReeper is happy being their own little statist so long as the police power is doing their bidding or the outcome falls in line with their views.
Dorner declared war in his Manifesto.
He declared war on every member of the LAPD. Every wife and every child of an LAPD member.
And numerous other people, he perceived to be wrong.
You should read his Manifesto.
He was running from the police? Why?
they opened fire on him BEFORE he opened fire and murdered police officers.
Can you provide some evidence to support that?
If there is ever a time that the police opened fire on me
Why would that happen? Can we have a show of hands here on FR of all the people who the cops have opened fire on?
I cannot believe people on FR don't see a problem with LAPD
We are discussing the San Bernardino Sheriff's department. I 've already dealt with the LAPD previously. Separate departments and incidents.
a cop murderer is dead
What about the young female basketball coach and her fiance? Don't they count? Are you so blinded by your cop hatred?