Ex-LAPD cop goes to war against colleagues

[heyabbott]

Anderson Cooper just interviewed a former LAPD cop who "understood" Dorner's "anger".

Anyone else think it's odd how the media wants to sympathize with this guy?

A homicidal maniac blames racism in the Los Angeles Police Department for his killing rampage against cops and civilians and the New York Times responds, "You know, he just may have a point." On Monday, as fired LAPD cop Christopher Dorner eluded capture for the sixth day after killing a Riverside Police Department officer, the daughter of his departmental defense attorney, and her fiancé, the Times wrapped up three days of observations about racism in the LAPD in response to Dorner's charge, in a lunatic manifesto, that the department was endemically biased and brutal. (Dorner may have burned to death in a cabin in the San Bernadino mountains after a shootout that killed another law enforcement officer.)

The Times's lead story in its national news section on Saturday was headlined: SHOOTING SUSPECT'S RACISM ALLEGATIONS RESOUND FOR SOME. Reporter Adam Nagourney opened his story with the LAPD's denial of Dorner's charges. "For the Los Angeles Police Department," wrote Nagourney, Dorner's accusations are "the words of a delusional man, detached from the reality of the huge improvements the force has undergone over the years." Nagourney didn't put the LAPD's position in irony-signaling scare quotes, but the reader knew what was coming next: after the departmental spin, now the reality. "Yet for whatever changes the department has undergone since the days when it was notorious as an outpost of rampant racism and corruption," continued Nagourney, "the accusations by the suspect—however disjointed and unhinged—have struck a chord. They are a reminder, many black leaders said, that some problems remain and, no less significant, that memories of abuses and mistreatment remain strong in many parts of this city."

Nagourney makes no effort to document what those alleged "problems" are. In fact, he provides not one instance of police misconduct. Instead, he simply rounds up the usual suspects, always good for a quote about the long shadow of racism in the LAPD. "It would be naïve and misguided to say that racism in any institution is entirely a thing of the past," UC Irvine law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky told the Times, after conceding that the department had changed. Nagourney also quotes certain members of the "community," such as Hodari Sababu, a 56-year-old tour guide: "In your community, the police is there to protect and serve; in my community, the police are there to harass and to insult and to kill if they get a chance." A 54-year-old bus driver explains: "Black people feel like we've been targets for so long, we've always felt that the L.A.P.D. was corrupt. So for us, it's like, O.K., they pushed him over the edge."

If the Times insists on giving any credence to the charges of a murderous madman—whose manifesto lists, among its "high value targets," former LAPD chief William Bratton; current chief Charles Beck; their spouses and children; Caucasian, Hispanic, lesbian, and Asian officers; and black LAPD supervisors—here's what it could have asked with regards to the Dorner case: Is there any evidence that Dorner's firing was the product of bias? The LAPD fired Dorner in 2009 after a disciplinary panel found that he had falsely accused his training sergeant of kicking a homeless man during an arrest; his credibility, said the board's chairman, was "damaged beyond repair." Three witnesses testified that they did not see the sergeant kick the man. If Dorner was fired because of racism, presumably other black officers would have been unfairly treated as well. Where are they? Or did the department's disciplinary apparatus erupt in bias in just this one case, and if so, why? Dorner had full opportunity to press his case: after his dismissal, he sued the department for wrongful termination. He lost at trial and again on appeal. The idea that bigotry or a lack of integrity tainted each of those fora strains credulity.

http://www.city-journal.org/2013/cjc0212hm.html

Al Sharpton was close to asking Dorner out on a date if he gave up, and was overly sympathetic to Dorner on the air on the day of the barricade. Not surprising from Tawana Brawely's pimp and noted anti-Semite.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Al Sharpton is a poverty pimp and a forking piece of shirt.

 

[Boom_70]

Al Sharpton is a poverty pimp and a forking piece of shirt.

Does not say much for MSNBC who gives him a prime slot.

 

[Mark2010]

Al Sharpton is a poverty pimp and a forking piece of shirt.

Yep.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Al Sharpton is a poverty pimp and a forking piece of shirt.

Does not say much for MSNBC who gives him a prime slot.

MSNBC gave Michael Savage a show because they thought he could get eyeballs. If they thought Boom_70 could attract 500,000 households, you could have a show there.

 

[hondo]

Does the media really want to "sympathize" with the guy?

Or is it just that the LAPD's spotty history raises questions?

Funny how some of the people sympathetic with Dorner scream about gun violence.

 

[AtticusFinch]

The racism is strong on this thread.

From the usual suspects, of course.

 

[deskslave]

I would have thought the conditions of your parole would have prevented you from drinking alcohol.

I'm fairly confident they wouldn't stop him from drinking, say, battery acid. Which would do us all a lot of good.

 

[heyabbott]

Al Sharpton is a poverty pimp and a forking piece of shirt.

Does not say much for MSNBC who gives him a prime slot.

hannity and O'Reilly, like beck, are some of the worst performers in the media, just horrible humans but Rev Al is orders of magnitude worse. Sharpton has blood on his hands and his employment means MSNBC is just as big a cesspool as Fox

 

[YankeeFan]

Dozens of protesters gathered outside the Los Angeles Police Department headquarters downtown Saturday afternoon, holding signs of support for Christopher Dorner, the fired police officer suspected of killing four people.

Those gathered said they were protesting police corruption and the way the massive manhunt for Dorner was conducted. Authorities said Dorner appears to have died from a self-inflected gunshot wound after a shootout with police in Big Bear on Tuesday, ending a deadly rampage that stretched across Southern California.

Protesters said they believed Dorner's claims that he was unfairly fired from the department in 2009 – grievances described in a lengthy online manifesto that has been attributed to him. Dorner also claimed that he was the victim of racism.

Protesters also said they were appalled by police mistakenly shooting at passengers in two separate trucks in Torrance, wrongly believing Dorner might be in the vehicles. One woman was shot in the back and is still recovering.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-protesters-show-support-for-christopher-dorner-20130216,0,7029118.story

 

[LongTimeListener]

This is already well on its way to being an Official Conspiracy Theory out here. I've heard it from a few corners where I am, 400 miles away. It won't take long before "the truth" surfaces that it wasn't a self-inflicted gunshot wound at all and that he wasn't even at the cabin -- the body there was a fake.

Just wait. It won't be long.

 

[Mark2010]

Maybe.

I have no doubt that the LAPD has serious corruption issues. heck, I suspect most police departments do.

That doesn't mean Dorner was a saint or a martyr, though.