If he had stuck strictly to cops, we’d be all good, but one of the first people he murdered wasn’t one.
Going after the families of bad people when they really didn’t play any role in the bad person’s actions is abhorrent and indefensible. Kids shouldn’t have to pay for the sins of the father and all that.
It doesn’t completely invalidate the good he did do/say, but it’s definitely a black mark on his record and why I can’t really get fully behind him, even for meme reasons.
I’ve brought him up before, but I think Micah Xavier Johnson is overall a better example. Apparently he was a sexual harasser when he was in the military, which is obviously terrible, but at least you can say when he went on his spree that he didn’t go for any non-cops.
She was engaged to a school cop (gross) and was having her dad to pull strings to try and get her fiancee a job on the force as a real cop. That sounds lot like a collaborator to me, than a victim who did “literally nothing” wrong. I am not saying Dorner was justified to do what he did, but she was no angel.
Does that mean she deserved to die? I don’t care about if she was perfect or not. No one is perfect.
I don’t think she deserved to die, like I’m not saying, “boy she really had it coming!”
I’m ambivalent. I don’t know exactly how to feel, especially after the Kyle Rittenhouse shooting. If that is kind of young zoomers cop families are going to foisting onto the public, we are in for some ugly shit. Maybe he was just “bad apple” but seeing how sooo many people are just rabidly cheering him on as a hero… I feel like there are a lot of cop moms out there (like Kyle’s) who are 100% complicit in the evildoing, even if daddy is wearing the badge. That’s why I used the word collaborator.
Thinking about the Dorner situation more to work out the moral question. Seems like a useful case study for 2020. I don’t see anything quelling the unrest until winter sets in deep and it’s too cold in some places.
I believe that there are different levels of collaboration. Would she deserve punishment? Yeah. Of course. But killing someone is quite a harsh action.
I actually changed my mind on this position. I believe that all cops and soldiers, past, present, or future, should be crucified in front of their families. Should I have the families crucified too?
