Roy, Did you know any of the folks involved personally? I'm not being a smart aleck. If you did, please fill us in on some of the particulars. I never met any of the particulars, so I am going by what I've read. Like most people I came to conclusion based on that.
I know how the game wardens can be because I was in a similar situation. When you are armed, they are civil to you. Once unarmed they treat you like crap. It's amazing how many g.w.'s don't think to look for a backup piece.
Facts are:
1: I do not have a problem with someone living of the land. If a person decides to say screw y'all and head for the hills like Jerimiah Johnson, more power to him.
2: Having a badge does NOT give you the right to push people around. PERIOD If you do that long enough you'll come across someone who is going to push back, so don't complain about the consequences.
3: If a LEO has a reputation for being a prick, well there is a saying, where there is smoke there is fire. pogue's superior's decision not to intervene or reign him in is the root cause of this situation.
4: The .22 coupe de grace was over the top. Doctors can debate all day long what kind of physical shape those two were in after the intial gunfight. However, it couldn't have been too good of shape. So basically they were dead or dying. The jury said if it wasn't for the .22, Dallas would have walked.
5: If Dallas was some bloodthirsty maniac, why did he surrender his pistol instead of just opening up upon sight of the two leo's? The circumstances tend to lean toward someone cooperating until the leo's crossed the line somewhere.