Dorner: Police stifle media coverage (tell media to stop tweeting), set fire to cabin

[Fire Walk With Me]

Some media have reported that police purposely started the cabin fire; others are saying they don't know how the fire started. It was announced on the scanner. Bottom text is the oldest:




Police strangled coverage, eliminating accountability. One office wanted media to quit tweeting as well. Censorship. They have deleted this tweet but screenshots occur:

Dorner manhunt: San Bernardino Sheriff's asks media to stop tweeting, media rebel

http://www.scpr.org/news/2013/02/12/35924/dorner-manhunt-san-bernardino-sheriff-s-asks-media/

There was a side story to Tuesday's Big Bear manhunt and shootout with suspected murderer and fugitive ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner. It was a request — believed to be unprecedented in Southern California — for media outlets to stop using Twitter to track the continuing manhunt, for fear of officer safety.

As events played out on local and cable television news, "Big Bear," "SWAT team" and "cabin" made it to the top of Twitter's national trending list. #Dorner was at the top of the trends list in Los Angeles.

That prompted the department to issue its unusual request late Tuesday afternoon: Please stop tweeting.

Why? KPCC placed a call to the department to ask why, but hasn't received a response yet. The tweet, and subsequent tweets thanking news outlets that complied, have been deleted.

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Interesting.

"The tweet, and subsequent tweets thanking news outlets that complied, have been deleted."

Worrisome, too.

[midwest irish]

6. I definitly recall this happening

I was reading the LA Times site and they have a live twitter feed for their reporters on the side of the page. The reporters stated law enforcement asked for a media blackout.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. I have to say, tho, that Dorner following tweets while in a shootout

is a bit far fetched.
then again, I may be underestimating internet addiction.

[nc4bo]

3. What Dorner did was absolutely horrible but the activities of law enforcement is suspect.

First they clear all news helicopters from the scene. No public eyes, no witnesses.

Now scrubbing internet postings. No public eyes, no witnesses but they can't control internet 100% yet.

Do not like.

[Luminous Animal]

4. More than one person heard the sherriff say that they were going forward with the burn plan.

[lynne]

5. News choppers were removed -

- due to concerns that he could see police movements if he was getting tv or internet access. Makes perfect sense to me, not unlike the crack-down on media reporting for the young boy kidnapped and held hostage last week.

Was listening to live reports before fire and said they threw in tear gas which ignited, as it will commonly do. He had many opportunities to give himself up and he refused. It was suicide by cop, plain and simple. The dude got back what he gave. Justice was served.

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. Our system of law provides for due process and innocence until proven guilty

and you are saying "an eye for an eye".

Please note that police pulled the same tactic regarding telling media to cease broadcasting immediately before attacking Occupy Oakland and Zuccotti. In Oakland, two Veterans were very nearly killed by cops, and Oakland authorities lied and lied and lied about what happened.

http://occupyobservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/oakland-officials-caught-in-lies-about.html

Media are beholden to the public, not the state.

[mythology]

9. Dorner chose to not avail himself of due process and innocence until proven guilty

You know what with the shooting at and killing the people trying to arrest him and all. It's kind of hard to complain about rights when you are actively preventing people from allowing you to exercise them.

[Fire Walk With Me]

11. It is simply the speed with which some appear to wish to bypass the legal system

in this country with its protections and promises that causes me pause. When emotions trump due process...

And do you not see the blatant lies in the above link laid waste by video and other evidence? Police and mayors LIE.

[geek tragedy]

13. The legal system is irrelevant in a gun battle.

Not sure what role you think judges and attorneys play in subduing an armed and extremely dangerous shooter.

[geek tragedy]

12. How dare you compare a hero like Scott Olsen to Chris Dorner.

Scott Olsen was exercising his right to free speech. Chris Dorner was shooting at the police trying to arrest him.

[cali]

7. gad. you'd think you might stop with the misleading crap

after your last disaster of an op.

[DevonRex]

10. Well...

That would be the reaction of a person without a specific agenda. Clearly FWWM has one.