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In reply to the discussion: Breaking News on Cop Killer/Dorner--for REAL updates [View all]GiaGiovanni
(1,247 posts)81. Why Dorner is doing this: More background with links
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_22539574/fired-lapd-officer-christopher-dorner-identified-suspect-couples
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/02/07/suspect-identified-in-deaths-cal-state-coach-fiance/ (Yeah it's Fox, but the info is interesting coming from them)
...At Dorner's disciplinary hearing, numerous officers testified about a July 28, 2007, "use of force" incident at the Doubletree Hotel in San Pedro in which Dorner's training officer, Sgt. Teresa Evans, shot a mentally ill man with a Taser gun to subdue him when Dorner and the man struggled and fell into bushes.
Other officers and witnesses described the use of force similarly, but Dorner filed a report saying Evans had kicked the man twice in the shoulder and face, and discouraged him from including the information in his police report...
...Evans testified that she and Dorner confronted a man on a bench outside the hotel's main door.... When Dorner and the man fell into the bushes, Evans shot the man twice with the Taser and Dorner handcuffed him. The suspect had marks on his face, but no boot marks, the document said...
...Dorner, however, testified that Evans kicked the suspect twice in the left collarbone and the left cheek...
...Detectives investigating Dorner's complaints against Evans found no evidence to support them.
"After reviewing all the evidence, the Board stated that it could not find that the kicks occurred," the document said, siding with testimony of other officers and witnesses....
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/02/07/suspect-identified-in-deaths-cal-state-coach-fiance/ (Yeah it's Fox, but the info is interesting coming from them)
...Dorner served in Iraq, providing security on an oil platform and has received awards including the Rifle Marksman Ribbon and a Pistol Expert Medal, among others. Based on his awards and deployment records, the Navy told FoxNews.com that Dorner would not be classified as an advanced shooter...
...Dorner is wanted in the killings of Monica Quan and her fiance, Keith Lawrence....Quan's father, a former LAPD captain who became a lawyer in retirement, represented Dorner in front of the Board of Rights, a tribunal that ruled against Dorner at the time of his dismissal.
According to documents from a court of appeals hearing in October 2011, Dorner was fired from the LAPD after he made a complaint against his field training officer, Sgt. Teresa Evans. Dorner said that in the course of an arrest, Evans kicked suspect Christopher Gettler, a schizophrenic with severe dementia.
Richard Gettler, the schizophrenic man's father, gave testimony that supported Dorner's claim. After his son was returned on July 28, 2007, Richard Gettler asked "if he had been in a fight because his face was puffy," and his son responded that he was kicked twice in the chest by a police officer...
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The two women LAPD shot were ELDERLY ASIAN WOMEN delivering the LA Times--KFI Radio 1:13pm
GiaGiovanni
Feb 2013
#26
I heard that truck was actually on fire last night and is still smoldering.
cherokeeprogressive
Feb 2013
#13
The news keeps changing on this. KFI has been pretty careful to say the truck "might" be his
GiaGiovanni
Feb 2013
#23
If you look at the pic, it matches the description they've been giving since 5 am this morning
GiaGiovanni
Feb 2013
#43
Once a cop and all, plus his reasoning is because of being fired I gather from reports.
Lionessa
Feb 2013
#17
dont by that he may have been a cop but hes not now. yes he has the training and skillset
loli phabay
Feb 2013
#19
He's actually a good deal more than that. He's a military sharpshooter and is waging "asymmetrical"
GiaGiovanni
Feb 2013
#14
And apparently the police are shooting innocent folks in their panic. Newspaper delivery ladies.
Lionessa
Feb 2013
#25
Old news (see above and see some other threads). Those women were elderly Asian women
GiaGiovanni
Feb 2013
#28
I didn't say it was new news, just that the opinion about panic is not only right, but really right.
Lionessa
Feb 2013
#29
Very true. Those two women that LAPD shot "accidentally" were in a Toyota Tacoma, not a Nissan
GiaGiovanni
Feb 2013
#18
Dorner served 6 months in Iraq & was honorably discharged from the service (reserves) last week--KFI
GiaGiovanni
Feb 2013
#20
seems like whatever reason LAPD didn't want him should have been reason for military
JI7
Feb 2013
#32
Actually, an honorable discharge adds some merit to Dorner's story that he was unjustly fired for
GiaGiovanni
Feb 2013
#37
It's got the 4 person cab and the shortened bed that they''ve been talking about
GiaGiovanni
Feb 2013
#39
Thanks for the link. Hope no one else gets hurt and this is resolved peacefully.
apocalypsehow
Feb 2013
#67
If the LAPD is going after one of its own, they won't be able to brutalize Occupy
coalition_unwilling
Feb 2013
#66
He may be everything you have said, but he hasn't been a lackey of the 1%
coalition_unwilling
Feb 2013
#120
I'm not a Christian but if I could nominate Smith Robinson for beatification, I would so at
coalition_unwilling
Feb 2013
#122
On this we agree 100%. It was her power and hers alone that did it. I was struck by
coalition_unwilling
Feb 2013
#124
I think they are probably precautionary. We have a tiny hospital here and two or three ambulances.
cherokeeprogressive
Feb 2013
#84
Big Bear Lake, Big Bear City, Fawnskin, and Sugarloaf = a little less than 16,000 people. n/t
cherokeeprogressive
Feb 2013
#90
That's what I thought as soon as I heard there was a burnt truck up on the forest road.
cherokeeprogressive
Feb 2013
#106
red herring, or they could be thinking of Rambo picking them off like flies in the mountains
Baclava
Feb 2013
#82
no, him leaving his truck on fire as a diversion, while he's already 100 miles away
Baclava
Feb 2013
#85
seems his beef is with LAPD - Rambo says he got nothing against civilians with no cop ties
Baclava
Feb 2013
#101
That was so eminently predictable. Backstory: the truck is discovered smouldering
coalition_unwilling
Feb 2013
#107
"CHP issues BOL saying Dorner may now be driving a white Lexus last seen in the Barstow area"
Baclava
Feb 2013
#110
Dorner's vehicular tastes are thus moving upscale (from Nissan pickup to Lexus sedan) - n/t
coalition_unwilling
Feb 2013
#114
LOL. You'll know we're in revolutionary times when the LAPD starts targeting
coalition_unwilling
Feb 2013
#118
OC Register: Dorner married; Ex describes Dorner as "paranoid" on Don't Date Him Girl.com
GiaGiovanni
Feb 2013
#93
The ex police chief was on the news last night saying that he gave him a button....
NCTraveler
Feb 2013
#146
I'll call him a fucking liar or grossly incompetent (or both). How's that? He had his
coalition_unwilling
Feb 2013
#149
Bratton's a public figure and probably takes hundreds of pictures a year with
msanthrope
Feb 2013
#151
Dorner, law enforcement sources say, could pose a threat to aviation security.
Baclava
Feb 2013
#153