What are they supposed to do? Let him escape to a designated cabin where they have permission from the owner to burn it down in the ensuing firefight?
I imagine the owners will get fully compensated. I will be irate if anything less results. But the SBSD did not choose the battlefield. Dorner did, and they had to fight him at that cabin.
I understand and respect your point. I really do, but only about an hour had passed after the perp had holed up and was surrounded on all sides by some 2000 officers. I don’t see him being able to go anywhere, but that is just my armchair opinion and not worth much.
In other words, he was in the house about an hour. No shots had been fired in that hour from what I heard on the scanner. They had armored vehicles on scene and began tearing down the walls of the cabin in that hour. We all know now,or should, the reported scanner audios of the plan to burn him out, etc.
Reports of shots fired from the house came after the fire was well under way and then were followed by reports of ammo cooking off. How can we be sure the reports of shots fired at that point was not just ammo cooking off? We can’t. Does it matter legally? I don’t know.
just for the record, I come from a long line of private property rights and limited government advocates and so I am admittedly biased in favor of those rights.
They knew he was injured. How you ask? They pried open the front door, looked in and saw blood spatter in the opposite corner.
At that point they could have safely let him bleed out.
At that point they decided that they needed to burn the cabin down RIGHT FRICKIN' NOW!