The LAPD Got their Man How They Wanted Him: Dead Wed, 02/13/2013 - 11:10 by: Dave Lindorff
"Burn that fuckin' house down...Fucking burn this motherfucker!!"
--Voices overheard on police radio at the scene of the cabin where Chris Dorner was trapped and burned to death
It was clear from the outset when fired LAPD cop Chris Dorner began wreaking his campaign of vengeance and terror against his former employer that the California law enforcement establishment, led by the LAPD itself, had no interest in Dorner surviving to face trial, where he could continue to rat out the racist and corrupt underbelly of the one of the countrys biggest police departments.
Dorner, as I wrote earlier, claimed he had been fired for speaking up during his three years on the force, through channels and to superior officers, about incidents he had witnessed of police brutality and of the rampant racism that permeates the department -- not just white on black, but black on Asian, Asian on Latino and Latino on white. His response to being sacked -- threatening to kill senior officers he blamed for this law enforcement distopia as well as some of their family members -- was criminally insane, but his complaints, made in a 6000-word post on Facebook, had and continue to have the ring of truth.
What gave the LAPD authority to burn the house down.
Lets start with your mischaraterization that anyone wearing a badge in the Dorner manhunt was "LAPD"..they were not. Dorner's final confrontation was with San Bernadino County Sheriff's department, before that he had a shootout with State Fish and Game officers, before that he attacked two Riverside California policeman.
Dorner was heavily armed, extremely dangerous, had killed four people including two on-duty policeman, and vowed never to be taken alive prior to being cornered in an empty cabin south of Big Bear. Dorner did not respond to requests he surrender or to the less intense 'cold' tear-gas that had been fired into the cabin where he was holed up.
It was under these circumstances and with concern that Dorner might escape under the cover of darkness that the decision to use the 'hot' tear-gas was made.