While, what is known about him should have lead to a fairly rapid conviction and death sentence in a criminal court; I have some reservations about how the police handled this.
This morning on a local talk radio show, they played some police scanner recordings where the police talked about sending in the “burner.” What I heard makes it sound very much like the police decided to deliberately burn down the house around him for either the purpose of killing him, causing him to commit suicide, or smoking him out so they could shoot him as he left the building.
There is such a thing as due process. Police are not suppose to be judge, jury and executioners all rolled into one.
Dorner was evil. Capturing him alive was probably a low probability event. However, I suspect that history will judge the police of Southern California pretty harshly on this one.
That’s a rather more elegant way of saying what I’ve been trying to. Thanks.
Well said. Due process might have been a rare end event as well but the whole thing went down in about an hour and a half. I heard the whole thing on the scanner yesterday. All of it and I can report to every FReeper that the cops moved to the ‘burn plan’ almost immediately, they deployed the burners and then reported that they had fire. Those are the facts for better or worse.
Did Dorner get what was coming to him? Yes..but if we applaud burning down private property as an ok Plan A and police meting out justice more out of vengeance, then the rule of law, then we will get what we deserve..tyranny.
Next person we watch and hear live on TV and scanners might just be a gun owner that is only refusing to give up his 2A rights or his guns to Obama’s ‘security forces’. When the security forces are burning down his house with him in it, don’t say we did not warn you.
The militarization of our police forces is happening all over the country and if that doesn’t give you at least some level of discomfort with Obama and Holder in charge, then you are not paying attention. And please, spare me the charge that I am a ‘cop hater’! That is a debate tactic of the left. It is ok if you disagree but let’s dispense with the childish name calling.
I agree with your [well-written] commentary completely.