I think the police official police line will be to deny any attempt or effort to burn the structure. There would be no need to deny the burn out was deliberate, and intended to kill Dorner, if there was no risk of legal fallout for that mode of deadly force.
During the standoff I was watching NBC4 out of LA. They interviewed two people live. One was a person who lived near the cabin. The other lived near the house where he had taken the people hostage.
In both instances, when asked a leading question about being relieved the ordeal was over, these residents had the same answer. They were relieved because they could now rest easy that the police wouldn’t hurt them....they viewed the police as a much greater threat to their safety than Dorner.
Think about that. The residents of this area were afraid of the police. More afraid of them than a homocidal maniac.
Dorner is a piece of crap, and I don’t support him.
However, I don’t like it when the police say the house accidentally caught fire (wink, wink, nudge, nudge, giggle)...when we all know they deliberately caught it on fire. That would fall into the category of the government lying to the people. And not just any government official, but the part of the government with the ability to use deadly force against its citizens. That scares the hell out of me.
I’m not going to celebrate the tactics at all. At least some of these police will have a conscience...and be haunted for the rest of their lives by how they ganged up on this guy to kill him like an animal.