REALLY? Seems you're overlooking the part where California law enforcement (LAPD) recklessly, without identifying the target, opened fire on innocent citizens in their zeal to shoot Dorner. Those officers were not trying to WARN the occupants of the vehicles they riddled with bullets...they were trying their best to kill them. Luckily they ONLY wounded two women, and shot up two trucks...neither of which matched the description of the truck they were looking for. Dorner may have got what he deserved...those innocent people certainly did not.TexasFlash wrote:My opinion; a maniac who murdered innocent people (including law enforcement personnel) is dead. Period. I personally don't consider him a human being, just a rabid animal. How it was done doesn't matter; just take out the trash without getting anyone else hurt/killed and move on..
Hats off to California law enforcement
Dave
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- Thu Feb 14, 2013 1:01 am
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- Wed Feb 13, 2013 11:39 am
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My comments are directed toward what happened in LA...what happened at the cabin will probably never be clear, but I don't believe they intended to take him alive. From day one when he shot the first LEO, his fate was pretty much sealed.PUCKER wrote:I believe LAPD SWAT was airlifted in...I remember hearing that on the news reports.texanjoker wrote:You do realize this was NOT LAPD in big bear? It was the San Berndardino County Sheriff and other state and local agencies involved? The 2 LEO"s shot, 1 dead were San Berndardino County deputies. Big Bear is a couple of hours away from LA.
- Wed Feb 13, 2013 11:29 am
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VMI77 wrote:texanjoker wrote: Mark Furhman said it best, why not give the LE's there a break?
They lost one during the incident, and another is critical. The one that died per a media report was married and his wife just had a baby.
There are lots of facts out, and they don't speak well of law enforcement --especially the LAPD:
1. They riddled a truck with 40 rounds, wounding an innocent woman --the truck was different than the truck Dorner was driving, and contained two women, not a big black man. The shots were from behind. If any of us did that defending our families, we'd be in prison. It smells like an assassination attempt, not a legitimate use of deadly force even if Dorner had been in the vehicle. Obviously they didn't even know who they were shooting at.
2. They rammed another vehicle, and then fired shots into it. This vehicle also did not contain a large black man, and since other officers had just cleared the vehicle to pass, it obviously was not self-defense or a legitimate use of deadly force. Neither of these two incidents can be reasonably passed off as "mistaken identity" as the LAPD is dishonestly trying to do --with a compliant media.
Anyone who thought that this would end with Dorner alive is naive...not defending him or his actions, but there's no way to justify all the LAPD's actions. The death of the Law Enforcement officers and other's is tragic, but still doesn't excuse LA police opening fire on innocent citizens. The attempt by the LAPD to excuse it as mistaken identity and the officers being highly stressed and jumpy is ridiculous. How can you call it mistaken identity when obviously NO attempt to identify was made. Why does that kind of behaviour deserve a break? Any civilian that acted that irresponsibly would be in jail right now.