From February 3-12, 2013, fired LAPD Officer Christopher Dorner worked his insane wrath against LAPD personnel–and their families–he thought responsible for his firing. The manhunt ended in a bloody shootout and Dorner’s suicide.
But before that event, a group of LAPD officers guarding the home of a LAPD Captain thought to be a potential target of Dorner, fired more than 100 rounds at a pickup truck driving through the neighborhood. Not only did they injure the two Hispanic women delivering papers in that truck, it resembled Dorner’s vehicle only in that it was a pickup truck. In their panic, they also shot multiple nearby homes and vehicles.
Only recently has the official LAPD report on that near-double murder been released. At Bearing Arms, I respond to PJ Media’s Jack Dunphy (not his actual name), a currently serving LAPD officer, who agrees with the LAPD chief who is apparently doing little or nothing to hold those trigger-happy officers accountable.
If you have a few minutes, you may find it worthwhile.
Stately McDaniel Manor 
Hello, Mike:
I was not sure where to post this but believe it will interest you, if you have not seen it already. It is not her only post at CTH.
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/03/25/guest-post-by-michelle-hart-gun-ban-part-2/
Dear jordann2222:
Thanks!
Great article, Mike! You covered it all!
The Perdue case was also outrageous. It happened minutes after the 103 round Mad Minute directed at the hispanic newspaper ladies.
A Torrance cop (BMG) driving in the area heard “shots fired” on the radio, and saw Perdue’s truck driving away from a police car; where Perdue had just been stopped, checked and cleared. BMG instantly decided the driver was Dorner, and he had just as obviously killed the police in the car. BMG instantly rams the truck, and not being able to see the driver, shoots blindly at Perdue through the truck airbags. Only one problem, Perdue is a pasty white guy, Dorner was not. Luckily for Perdue, the Torrance cop was a lousy shot, and missed him with all his shots, but the ramming screwed up Perdue’s back.
The LA DA decided not to file charges. His actions were judged acceptable considering the “fear and extreme anticipation.” The people in LA were lucky none of them were killed that week, the cops were all scared ___-less with fear and extreme anticipation.
The Emmy’s (?; some awards show?) were that week. I kept thinking that if some wise guy set off a string of firecrackers at the Emmy celebration, half of Hollywood would have died in the resultant police cross-fire.
Cops who do things like this demonstrate why some people should not have guns. I will concede that those who are so mentally unstable should not be armed with live ammo.
In this line of work, as in combat, you must be able to react to all such situations with common sense, composure, and for God’s sake, fire your weapon accurately.
Were all of the cops in the LAPD really so much afraid of him that they could not act responsibly? If so, I would not want them defending my small town.
That entire saga including the manifesto were beyond bizarre. An entire nation’s attention was focused on the actions of one simple human being and many folks in the entire state of CA lived in fear. That is a lot of power.
Is it to far to say that when you state ‘some people should not have guns’, that some where along the line there should be potential investigation and competency checks? What is the difference between ‘this line of work’ and a person protecting themselves in such an instance where they have instead their own wits rather than a badge?
Boiled down to its essentials, law enforcement is behaving as a citizen would. They both have to act within the law, both are entitled to self defense, both enjoy protections of the law when assailed. If you contend that there are some people that should not have guns, that must extend beyond law enforcement and into the citizenry as a whole. Without an ‘incident’, how would you find out whom is who on the ‘should/should not’ be armed list?
Sorry that I was not clear. When I said: “Some people should not have guns,” I meant exactly that. LE is only a segment of “some people.” I have personally known people in that category and they are very scary. However, there is no evidence to support my personal belief that they should not own guns so nothing can be done legally. There is no fool proof method to determine that UNTIL they do something like these members of LE and the other crazy folks who “lose it” and go on a killing spree.
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Any justification of this police action is so much bovine excrement. They violated every standard, common-sense rule for safe gun handling in a completely unjustified use of deadly force.
If they mistook two tiny Hispanic women in a blue pickup truck for a ginormous, muscular black man in a silver Honda Ridgeline, then they are clearly incompetent for any sort of police work. I wouldn’t even trust them to write parking tickets. They’d inevitably write the citations for the wrong vehicles.
Further, the discharge of over 100 rounds at a target 100 yards away in the middle of a residential area is criminally negligent. They endangered not only the lives of the two women they intentionally shot; they also endangered the lives of any occupants of the homes between them and their target (and beyond).
One officer emptied a magazine of 9mm at a distance of 90-100 yards. I’d like to see his qualifying accuracy at even 25 yards. Handguns simply aren’t accurate at such a distance – meaning that the officer who took those shots put dozens of innocent lives at risk.
It doesn’t surprise me that the LAPD would cover for their own; but it disgusts me that a PJ Media writer would defend the actions of these criminally negligent police officers.
Shootings such as this are the inevitable consequence of the gun control lobby’s propaganda campaign to demonize gun owners by citing alleged danger to the police. It began with the original “cop killer” bullet then evolved into the threat of plastic pistols and finally so called “Assault Weapons.”. Unfortunately; this shameless effort to incite unreasonable fear among law enforcement so that police paranoia can then be exploited to advance a political agenda has unfortunate effects on police. The fact that so many law enforcement officials have been blathering about how they are being “outgunned” by criminals armed with “assault weapons” when the FBI’s annual report “Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted” reveals that the number of cops being shot and killed in the line of duty has been on a steep downward trend for half a century demonstrates a gratuitous lack of integrity. Even more alarming is the resulting police paranoia. The propaganda about criminals allegedly being armed with large caliber, long barreled, high capacity assault rifles that can fire dozens of rounds without reloading while the cops are armed with small caliber, short barreled, Saturday Night Specials that are prone to misfire or discharge prematurely is instilling a Freudian Phobia of Firearms. It is inevitable that cops who are microcephalic as well as microphallic will inevitable allow their unreasonable fear to undermine their judgement.
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#1. Always remember, when it comes to guns, the natural right of self-defense (they have to admit to that) means the right to defend yourself and your loved ones against tyranny.
#1.a. If they say it’s moot because D. C. has an Army with tanks and big bad bombs, all the more reason to increase gun freedom, because defense against tyranny is more important than defense against criminals. That’s because state-level tyranny is mass criminality on a nation-state level.
#2. The police that are responsible and restrained in the exercise of their duties are not directly responsible for the bad apples.
BUT they are guilty for inaction in the face of irresponsible actions on the part of their peers.
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