there is no way to prove that they were intentionally trying to do that,
I dunno... I listened to that audio.. sounded a lot like a coordinated effort to set fire to the cabin, corner by corner. Then it sounds like they kept the firefighters away intentionally. I find it hard to reach any other outcome than they intentionally lit a fire, then let it burn with a human inside.
I'm not defending Dorner. He killed innocents and deserved death penalty. He never would have seen the needle in California. I have cops in my family. I knew from minute one, he could emerge naked with hands in air, and he'd be going home in a box.
Still, police take an oath to be ABOVE the emotion. To me, it sounds a lot like they violated Geneva convention in this case. True, nobody deserved it more than Dorner for killing innocents. Still, once this is okay'd, and we can "smoke out" 1 dude, then we give Obama the ability to firebomb a million dudes.