Comments on: Fugitive ex-LAPD cop accused in shootings posts manifesto, attempts to steal boat, flee to Mexico http://boingboing.net/2013/02/07/ex-lapd-cop-accused-in-shootin.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 18 May 2013 21:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Thebes42 http://boingboing.net/2013/02/07/ex-lapd-cop-accused-in-shootin.html#comment-1651047 Thebes42 Sat, 09 Feb 2013 21:36:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211599#comment-1651047  No great surprise given his cop background.  No great surprise given his cop background.

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2013/02/07/ex-lapd-cop-accused-in-shootin.html#comment-1650335 Antinous / Moderator Fri, 08 Feb 2013 21:33:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211599#comment-1650335 I'm pretty sure that I heard them described that way the first time that I ever met someone from LA back in the 1970s. I’m pretty sure that I heard them described that way the first time that I ever met someone from LA back in the 1970s.

]]> By: Navin_Johnson http://boingboing.net/2013/02/07/ex-lapd-cop-accused-in-shootin.html#comment-1650242 Navin_Johnson Fri, 08 Feb 2013 19:50:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211599#comment-1650242  Seems very likely that he was singled out, or at least experienced a lot of racism.  Seems very likely that he was singled out, or at least experienced a lot of racism.

]]> By: eldritch http://boingboing.net/2013/02/07/ex-lapd-cop-accused-in-shootin.html#comment-1650014 eldritch Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:13:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211599#comment-1650014 You honestly don't comprehend why would a cop be aware of a high profile celebrity murder that made national news in his own city during the years he worked there? You honestly aren't disgusted that a murderer has invoked the name of a pacifist to attempt to defend his actions? You honestly don’t comprehend why would a cop be aware of a high profile celebrity murder that made national news in his own city during the years he worked there?

You honestly aren’t disgusted that a murderer has invoked the name of a pacifist to attempt to defend his actions?

]]> By: brian_x http://boingboing.net/2013/02/07/ex-lapd-cop-accused-in-shootin.html#comment-1649962 brian_x Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:42:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211599#comment-1649962 You can be crazy and still be more or less correct, you know. You can be crazy and still be more or less correct, you know.

]]> By: donovan acree http://boingboing.net/2013/02/07/ex-lapd-cop-accused-in-shootin.html#comment-1649874 donovan acree Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:00:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211599#comment-1649874 Do we need any more evidence that the LAPD are a gang of thugs and criminals? Do we need any more evidence that the LAPD are a gang of thugs and criminals?

]]> By: donovan acree http://boingboing.net/2013/02/07/ex-lapd-cop-accused-in-shootin.html#comment-1649871 donovan acree Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:54:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211599#comment-1649871 Re: choking another officer. That 'officer' was calling a citizen a n****r repeatedly and when confronted and told to stop said he would say whatever he wanted to. He deserved to the choked. Re: choking another officer. That ‘officer’ was calling a citizen a n****r repeatedly and when confronted and told to stop said he would say whatever he wanted to. He deserved to the choked.

]]> By: Sasha Shepherd http://boingboing.net/2013/02/07/ex-lapd-cop-accused-in-shootin.html#comment-1649805 Sasha Shepherd Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:04:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211599#comment-1649805 It's not only criminals having guns, it's only criminals and police/military/other agents of the state having guns. It’s not only criminals having guns, it’s only criminals and police/military/other agents of the state having guns.

]]> By: hidflect http://boingboing.net/2013/02/07/ex-lapd-cop-accused-in-shootin.html#comment-1649793 hidflect Fri, 08 Feb 2013 11:49:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211599#comment-1649793 " He also posted a wacky 11,000-word manifesto.." Nothing "wacky" about it. You're just slurring because you think it's the right thing to do. ” He also posted a wacky 11,000-word manifesto..”

Nothing “wacky” about it. You’re just slurring because you think it’s the right thing to do.

]]> By: Promethean Sky http://boingboing.net/2013/02/07/ex-lapd-cop-accused-in-shootin.html#comment-1649753 Promethean Sky Fri, 08 Feb 2013 08:58:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211599#comment-1649753 No wonder the LAPD is taking a shoot first and ask questions never stance towards him. I too have been reading his manifesto, and he is dangerous with words. If he's killed, the media can write him off as a nut. If he's caught alive, the fallout will be (or should be, anyway) UGLY. No wonder the LAPD is taking a shoot first and ask questions never stance towards him. I too have been reading his manifesto, and he is dangerous with words. If he’s killed, the media can write him off as a nut. If he’s caught alive, the fallout will be (or should be, anyway) UGLY.

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2013/02/07/ex-lapd-cop-accused-in-shootin.html#comment-1649725 Antinous / Moderator Fri, 08 Feb 2013 07:30:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211599#comment-1649725 I thought it was a joke.  I just poked a little deeper, and it's pus all the way down. I thought it was a joke.  I just poked a little deeper, and it’s pus all the way down.

]]> By: Genre Slur http://boingboing.net/2013/02/07/ex-lapd-cop-accused-in-shootin.html#comment-1649714 Genre Slur Fri, 08 Feb 2013 06:55:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211599#comment-1649714  I'm guessing you don't appreciate communism.  I’m guessing you don’t appreciate communism.

]]> By: Dv Revolutionary http://boingboing.net/2013/02/07/ex-lapd-cop-accused-in-shootin.html#comment-1649705 Dv Revolutionary Fri, 08 Feb 2013 06:22:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211599#comment-1649705 It's psychologically ultra hard to deal with being railroaded. It's awful that people would lie about you, it's worse when others who might be adjudicating believe them or pretend to. That on it's own fires up the feeling paranoid.  But to top it off your kicked out of wherever you've spent your working hours. A place you enjoyed and thought you fit in. You are no longer welcome there. They may make it ultra difficult for you to contact any co-workers or friends. Before you can fully process all this the free market kicks in with some huge crushing stress to add to this situation. You are on your own. The record now says that you were fired with cause! No unemployment for you and you need to work now but your resume is trashed. But those fuckers who fucked you are still getting paid and who knows how awful they are running things with you out of the way. As someone who has been fired from a much lower and less important position for not taking a bribe, a bribe that my immediate supervisor wanted in on - I can feel this guy. It’s psychologically ultra hard to deal with being railroaded. It’s awful that people would lie about you, it’s worse when others who might be adjudicating believe them or pretend to. That on it’s own fires up the feeling paranoid. 

But to top it off your kicked out of wherever you’ve spent your working hours. A place you enjoyed and thought you fit in. You are no longer welcome there. They may make it ultra difficult for you to contact any co-workers or friends.

Before you can fully process all this the free market kicks in with some huge crushing stress to add to this situation. You are on your own. The record now says that you were fired with cause! No unemployment for you and you need to work now but your resume is trashed. But those fuckers who fucked you are still getting paid and who knows how awful they are running things with you out of the way.

As someone who has been fired from a much lower and less important position for not taking a bribe, a bribe that my immediate supervisor wanted in on – I can feel this guy.

]]> By: Guest http://boingboing.net/2013/02/07/ex-lapd-cop-accused-in-shootin.html#comment-1649661 Guest Fri, 08 Feb 2013 04:46:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211599#comment-1649661 Yeah I was going to post that LL Cool J looks like he replaced the 'roids with donuts. Yeah I was going to post that LL Cool J looks like he replaced the ‘roids with donuts.

]]> By: elix http://boingboing.net/2013/02/07/ex-lapd-cop-accused-in-shootin.html#comment-1649659 elix Fri, 08 Feb 2013 04:37:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211599#comment-1649659 Thank you, that was just the kind of batshit out-of-nowhere non sequitur political rant this comment page needed. Thank you, that was just the kind of batshit out-of-nowhere non sequitur political rant this comment page needed.

]]> By: Marc Mielke http://boingboing.net/2013/02/07/ex-lapd-cop-accused-in-shootin.html#comment-1649581 Marc Mielke Fri, 08 Feb 2013 02:10:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211599#comment-1649581 In the action movie version, those three would have been killed by a corrupt cop in on the scheme and intended to frame him.  In the action movie version, those three would have been killed by a corrupt cop in on the scheme and intended to frame him. 

]]> By: marilove http://boingboing.net/2013/02/07/ex-lapd-cop-accused-in-shootin.html#comment-1649534 marilove Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:52:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211599#comment-1649534 Oh, GOOD, I am glad I'm not the only one.  "Fat LL Cool J" is what I thought! Oh, GOOD, I am glad I’m not the only one.  ”Fat LL Cool J” is what I thought!

]]> By: Preston Sturges http://boingboing.net/2013/02/07/ex-lapd-cop-accused-in-shootin.html#comment-1649529 Preston Sturges Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:43:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211599#comment-1649529 How about  Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie in "Street Kings" How about  Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie in “Street Kings”

]]> By: Preston Sturges http://boingboing.net/2013/02/07/ex-lapd-cop-accused-in-shootin.html#comment-1649526 Preston Sturges Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:41:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211599#comment-1649526 Don't forget the armored bus in "The Gauntlet" Don’t forget the armored bus in “The Gauntlet”

]]> By: Preston Sturges http://boingboing.net/2013/02/07/ex-lapd-cop-accused-in-shootin.html#comment-1649522 Preston Sturges Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:35:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211599#comment-1649522 I don't think 11,000 words really rates being called a "manifesto."  Ted Kazinsky wrote 35,000 words, and Anders Breivik's ran much longer (although he plagiarized). I don’t think 11,000 words really rates being called a “manifesto.”  Ted Kazinsky wrote 35,000 words, and Anders Breivik’s ran much longer (although he plagiarized).

]]> By: Preston Sturges http://boingboing.net/2013/02/07/ex-lapd-cop-accused-in-shootin.html#comment-1649518 Preston Sturges Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:29:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211599#comment-1649518 Wow it sounds like they really really really want to shut this guy up before a grand jury can question him.  Wow it sounds like they really really really want to shut this guy up before a grand jury can question him. 

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2013/02/07/ex-lapd-cop-accused-in-shootin.html#comment-1649509 Antinous / Moderator Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:26:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211599#comment-1649509 That's just flapdoodle. That’s just flapdoodle.

]]> By: Brainspore http://boingboing.net/2013/02/07/ex-lapd-cop-accused-in-shootin.html#comment-1649499 Brainspore Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:07:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211599#comment-1649499 OK, but I think it's kinda cheating if you rearrange the letters. "Lapdance" works, but it's hard to work that one in to most LAPD scandals. OK, but I think it’s kinda cheating if you rearrange the letters. “Lapdance” works, but it’s hard to work that one in to most LAPD scandals.

]]> By: flickerKuu http://boingboing.net/2013/02/07/ex-lapd-cop-accused-in-shootin.html#comment-1649492 flickerKuu Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:57:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211599#comment-1649492  Yeah, that is a very truncated version. I suggest this one:  http://www.crimefilenews.com/2013/02/fired-lapd-officer-obama-lover-and.html  Yeah, that is a very truncated version. I suggest this one:  http://www.crimefilenews.com/2013/02/fired-lapd-officer-obama-lover-and.html

]]> By: flickerKuu http://boingboing.net/2013/02/07/ex-lapd-cop-accused-in-shootin.html#comment-1649468 flickerKuu Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:11:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211599#comment-1649468 I agree. A part of me is cool with it too. I know innocent and "innocent" people are getting killed, that's bad. But on one hand, if the system is so corrupt and spoiled that it needs something like this to fix it - then so be it. Maybe now we can get rid of corruption seeing as the "correct" way to handle it was scoffed at and denied. If they would have just let him report the brutality, and discipline his FTO, none of this would happen. As far as I'm concerned- all the blood is at the hands of the LAPD and Internal Affairs. I agree. A part of me is cool with it too. I know innocent and “innocent” people are getting killed, that’s bad. But on one hand, if the system is so corrupt and spoiled that it needs something like this to fix it – then so be it. Maybe now we can get rid of corruption seeing as the “correct” way to handle it was scoffed at and denied. If they would have just let him report the brutality, and discipline his FTO, none of this would happen. As far as I’m concerned- all the blood is at the hands of the LAPD and Internal Affairs.

]]> By: flickerKuu http://boingboing.net/2013/02/07/ex-lapd-cop-accused-in-shootin.html#comment-1649465 flickerKuu Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:08:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211599#comment-1649465 Why would a cop be aware of a single murder in 1997? The guy was probably in high school at the time. No, I'm not disgusted in his mention of Bill Cosby. He was making a point about race, and a valid one. Do you even know why or what he's referring to? Why would a cop be aware of a single murder in 1997? The guy was probably in high school at the time.
No, I’m not disgusted in his mention of Bill Cosby. He was making a point about race, and a valid one. Do you even know why or what he’s referring to?

]]> By: Marty Blanket Ingels II http://boingboing.net/2013/02/07/ex-lapd-cop-accused-in-shootin.html#comment-1649460 Marty Blanket Ingels II Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:05:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211599#comment-1649460 The manifesto I read doesn't contain any of the wacky Bill Cosby stuff you mentioned. I don't know if what I read was truncated or if the wacky elements were added later by someone seeking to make Dorner's claims of an LAPD internal affairs cover-up look uncredible/not worth verifying.  http://content.clearchannel.com/cc-common/mlib/616/02/616_1360213161.pdf The manifesto I read doesn’t contain any of the wacky Bill Cosby stuff you mentioned. I don’t know if what I read was truncated or if the wacky elements were added later by someone seeking to make Dorner’s claims of an LAPD internal affairs cover-up look uncredible/not worth verifying. 

http://content.clearchannel.com/cc-common/mlib/616/02/616_1360213161.pdf

]]> By: flickerKuu http://boingboing.net/2013/02/07/ex-lapd-cop-accused-in-shootin.html#comment-1649456 flickerKuu Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:03:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211599#comment-1649456 His manifesto is pretty non-crazy.  The more I read about this, the more I blame the LAPD. A simple case of squeezing a man until he breaks. No killing is ever justified, but man I don't feel so bad for the people he's after- looks like they had it coming. His manifesto is pretty non-crazy.  The more I read about this, the more I blame the LAPD. A simple case of squeezing a man until he breaks. No killing is ever justified, but man I don’t feel so bad for the people he’s after- looks like they had it coming.

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2013/02/07/ex-lapd-cop-accused-in-shootin.html#comment-1649450 Antinous / Moderator Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:57:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211599#comment-1649450 Or 'backpedal'. Or ‘backpedal’.

]]> By: anansi133 http://boingboing.net/2013/02/07/ex-lapd-cop-accused-in-shootin.html#comment-1649443 anansi133 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:51:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=211599#comment-1649443 Gad Zooks!  I can just see the news bulletin- "For your own safety, if you drive a car that resembles the one we think the fugitive is driving, stay off the roads!" Gad Zooks!
 I can just see the news bulletin- “For your own safety, if you drive a car that resembles the one we think the fugitive is driving, stay off the roads!”

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