If the cops performed vigilante justice on Dorner, so what? He had it coming.

[Bucky]

50. I think you know better than that.

Police and other authority figures have frequently been caught engaging in vigilante justice. This is exactly why there's a Bill of Rights. This is not to say this particular case was murder under the color of authority. We just don't know all the facts. But even a cursory reading of the history of law enforcement, from the Haymarket Riot to Kent State to the Pullman Strike to the Boston Massacre to the Rodney King beating to Stonewall to dozens of causes from the Civil Rights Movement will tell you men with guns trusted with power and authority can maliciously overstep the line.

This is why we have restrictions, engagement policies, review boards, and accountability. No American is ever "a goddamned idiot" for questioning the authority, propriety, or actions of the police under a situation like this. We don't just have a right to question the police for how they handled a case that ended so violently, we have an obligation to the rule of law to do so.