First, the people whose deaths kicked off this rampage of terror in Los Angeles: Monica Quan and Keith Lawrence. Monica Quan was the daughter of former LAPD Captain Randal Quan, the man who represented Dorner at his LAPD termination hearing. She was an assistant coach for women's basketball at Cal State Fullerton. She was apparently killed in retaliation against Randal Quan, apparently because Dorner felt he betrayed him at the hearing. Keith Lawrence was her fiance, and was apparently killed because of that.
Then there were two police officers who died in the line of duty: Michael Crain and Jeremiah MacKay. Michael Crain was a former US Marine and an officer with the Riverside police department. He was killed in an ambush attack. Jeremiah MacKay was a sheriffs deputy for San Bernardino County. He died in a gun battle with Dorner, and another officer was seriously injured.
Now, we get to the other victims of the rampage by the police. The ones that were marked for death by summary execution by the Los Angeles and Torrance Police Department. These victims survived the murderous rampage by law enforcement officers only by the grace of God. The police did not attempt to look them in the eye or identify these innocent people, and the police did not ask them to surrender. The police just opened fire on these following people without so much as looking. This was worse than shoot-on-sight: it was shoot-before-sight. Fortunately, probably as a direct result of their recklessness, they failed.
Maggie Carranza and her mother Emma Hernandez were a mother and daughter team delivering newspapers in the morning on February 8, when officers from the Los Angeles Police Department approached their blue truck and opened fire without warning. Maggie Carranza's hand was injured while her mother Emma Hernandez took 2 bullets in the back. The police attempted to justify this shoot-before-sight attempted summary execution by saying the truck resembled the one driven by Chris Dorner. First of all, it didn't even look the same; second of all, this was a clear message being sent to all citizens: that the police are not going to ask for a surrender, and they're not even going to waste time identifying, much less verifying, their target.
Perhaps this is why, subsequently, David Perdue was shot at by Torrance police officers who rammed his car, didn't bother to get a look at him, and opened fire without so much as an order to surrender. Fortunately, they missed him.
We don't get much biographical information about these three victims... why? Because, unlike Dorner's victims, they survived. But they survived simply because the police who shot at them, didn't shoot accurately enough. Thank goodness.
Chris Dorner monstrously - and I repeat, monstrously - targeted his victims. But if you weren't on his hit list and didn't engage him in battle, you were safe. The LAPD and the Torrance Police Department, on the other hand, deployed a blind, shoot-anything-that-moves "strategy" that terrorized the California Southland. Nobody was safe from the shooting rampage carried out by the police! Innocent lives were not lost ONLY BECAUSE THE POLICE WERE NOT GOOD SHOTS. Two innocent women were shot and hospitalized by the police.
Where is the Federal Bureau of Investigation? Where are the calls for these trigger happy wanna-be summary executioners to be thrown in prison for recklessly endangering the populace they're supposed to protect? Chris Dorner's actions were evil and monstrous - but the actions of those trigger happy cops were even worse.
Dorner is apparently dead. Justice served. Now it is time to deal with those shoot-before-sight cops. Identify those trigger-happy police officers NOW. Prosecute them NOW.
Attempted summary executions of American citizens on American soil IS ILLEGAL. PROSECUTE THEM NOW!!! And may the Federal Government never, ever let those trigger-happy cops see the outside of a prison again.
We don't get much biographical information about these three victims... why? Because, unlike Dorner's victims, they survived. But they survived simply because the police who shot at them, didn't shoot accurately enough. Thank goodness.
But make no mistake: these three people
were victims of attempted summary executions.
were victims of attempted summary executions.
Summary executions outside of wartime are ILLEGAL.
(And should be illegal under any circumstance.)
(And should be illegal under any circumstance.)
Chris Dorner monstrously - and I repeat, monstrously - targeted his victims. But if you weren't on his hit list and didn't engage him in battle, you were safe. The LAPD and the Torrance Police Department, on the other hand, deployed a blind, shoot-anything-that-moves "strategy" that terrorized the California Southland. Nobody was safe from the shooting rampage carried out by the police! Innocent lives were not lost ONLY BECAUSE THE POLICE WERE NOT GOOD SHOTS. Two innocent women were shot and hospitalized by the police.
Dorner is apparently dead. Justice served. Now it is time to deal with those shoot-before-sight cops. Identify those trigger-happy police officers NOW. Prosecute them NOW.
Attempted summary executions of American citizens on American soil IS ILLEGAL. PROSECUTE THEM NOW!!! And may the Federal Government never, ever let those trigger-happy cops see the outside of a prison again.
