PJ TV did a spot on those who cheered Dorner on in his actions:
Wayyyy too far. Its not like our crazy media wouldn’t have given lots of time to an ultra-progressive minority cop claiming corruption, racism, and violence on behalf of the LAPD, no matter how thin his story. There was a non-violent way to get his message out and seek revenge against those who he perceived to have wronged him. As I’ve said before, there is a time for violence, and from what I read in Dorner’s grievances, this was NOT the time.
Still there is a part of me who’s sad that he’s likely now dead, and certainly the methods of it. Huffington post has a post up that has an official Police statement that the tear gas likely started the blaze. There are also some unofficial reports that the blaze may have been intentional.
Seeing the wanton attacks on the two pickup trucks, it seems pretty clear the LAPD had ZERO interest in taking this man alive and letting him stand trial for his crimes. Of course Dorner’s taste for blood also made his chances of being taken alive slim at best.
I’m upset that a man would kill so many people, who as dirty as they may have been (Turns out the people murdered were not LAPD or on Dorner’s list, meaning its more than likely collateral damage of a crazy person), didn’t deserve to die. But also I don’t have a lot of love for the police and their actions in this case.
I got the feeling that some of those who ‘cheered’ for him did so mostly because of their dislike for LAPD, not that they really agree with Dorner’s methods. It seemed to me it was just a case of evil vs evil. Now what are the odds the LAPD will actually change for the better?
Yep, the old “Scorpion fighting a snake” analogy. I they both die, its a net win.
Chances of LAPD getting their dirty house in order? Greater than zero….but not much greater than zero.
Maybe it’s because I just finished reading McMurtry’s Pretty Boy Floydlast week that this whole Dorner episode seemed familiar. In hard times, outlaws are romanticized. Especially if they go up against institutions that are generally believed to be corrupt. There’s no getting around him murdering those first two non combatants in Irvine though.
Nonetheless, I was inspired to write this tongue in cheek folk song The Ballad of Chris Dorner apologies to Johnny Cash.
“As dirty as they may have been”? The first two victims were his lawyer’s daughter and her fiance — in their early 20s, no connections to the LAPD except the woman’s father was once an officer.
Neither of the two dead officers were LAPD, as far as I can recall.
So, basically, no one he killed was connected to his complaints.
Good point. I wonder lie, this story got in my wheelhouse when the police started shooting innocent people, not when Dorner started murdering people, so I didn’t follow his crimes as closely as the LAPD crimes.
I’ll amend the post before the Squirrel Report tonight!
“Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to stupidity”.
Also, even though it’s a lot of fun to come up with complex scenarios to explain the deeds of a nutburger, we must remember Occam’s Razor. The simplest solution is usually the correct one. Dorner was undoubtedly a nutburger and proved it by killing four people not at all connected with LAPD. the LAPD may be guilty, in this case, of nothing more than criminal boneheadedness, in the shooting up of not one, not two, bur three trucks and injuring several people not at all connected with Dorner.
I am not excusing the LAPD for any bad they may have done, and in ever organization that large there are bound to be some bad apples, but it looks to me as if some folks just got a wee bit jumpy on the trigger. There’s enough fodder in this case to keep the tinfoil hat crowd busy for years but I think the fire was set my Dorner and then he blew his brains out and now four families are left to pick up the pieces and LA is left with another big black eye. Conspiacy thoeries are fun and all, but, as Freud said, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
I wonder if he ever called Charlie Sheen back?
(typing is hard)
How come every time someone won’t leave a wooden house, the house always ‘mysteriously’ burns down when the police are there? Maybe it’s time they updated their M.O. towards ‘negotiation’ and away from ’18th Century British Land Baron.”