Yeah, well, even while all this discussion is illuminating, I'm going to wait until the made-for-tv reenactments and MSNBC documentary to make up my mind about what happened. 'MERICA FUCK YEAH
So, this is what state-sanctioned murder looks like, huh? Sigh...to all you idiots in this thread, you few mental incompetents that can't see the Dorner situation as what it is: one day, YOU may be Chris Dorner. The State may decide that YOU are a threat to society, a bringer of doom and terror, and you too may be summarily executed. Does this comment endorse Dorner as an innocent? No. Nor does this comment claim he was guilty. That was to be the duty of 12 strangers. They were to decide his lot.
I get pissed at red lights all the time; I don't crash my car into the pole, or climb up a ladder to rip the motherfuckers down, nor do I plink the bastards with a BB gun. Dorner could well have achieved his desired result by going to the national media, or the international media. People do funny things when they're angry, don't they? Sometimes, they even incinerate a fellow human being, when their responsibility is to bring folks to justice - not to BE justice.
I hope the backlash against the LAPD is as thorough as a TSA anal cavity search, and very, very heavily publicized. Fucking dicks.