IMMEDIATE THOUGHTS AND LINGERING QUESTIONS ABOUT THE DORNER MANHUNT (PARANOIA MAGAZINE SPECIAL!)

By Km Patten

Real things were happening on the planet while Obama got ready for his State of the Union address. It was even reported that the showdown taking place in the snowcapped mountains of Big Bear had almost interrupted the president’s little ensemble. When it was over, the charred body of former Los Angeles police officer and accused murderer Christopher Dorner was deceased, and the San Bernardino PD were packing up and going home. Living in between the cities of Los Angeles and Riverside, and being part of the Occupy LA crowd for some time, I had an opportunity to witness the event, along with its reactions, as another hand was almost needed to finish counting the dead. Although questions remain, reflections can still be made.

The timeline(now part of officialdom thanks to Wikipedia) starts on the evening of February 3rd, when Monica Quan and her fiancé Keith Lawrence were gunned down in the city of Irvine. Details of the suspect were reported within days: a not so recently terminated thirty three year old black man, built like a tank, who had just been discharged from the Navy. Three more officers lost their lives during the ensuing 9-day long manhunt. Within that first nail-biting week, in which one million dollars was offered as a reward and fifty or more people were put on a protection detail, two versionsof Dorner’s “manifesto” had been widely circulated online.

In this, he at first defines the purpose of a name, and seems hopeful that he’ll be able to “clear” his own. The grievance starts with an Officer Teresa Evans, who he alleges kicked the head of a mentally handicapped man, one Christopher Gettler, in August of 2007. A videotaped statement from Gettler, along with Evan’s own lawyer, supposedly confirms these charges. Despite this, the Board of Officers determined that his tattling had no merit, and terminated his employment. “This department has not changed from the Daryl Gates and Mark Fuhrman days…I will correct this error,” he writes chillingly. “I have nothing to lose. My personal casualty means nothing.”

Ignoring both the Law and the requests of people like Mike Ruppert, who demanded a trial in which Dorner might look into the eyes of his victims, and where the public  might hear his allegations, the San Bernardino PD obliged the seemingly mutual ‘not-coming-out-alive’ agreement. An audio recordedby local news outlets captured several unnamed officers repeatedly shouting to “get the gas” and “burn the motherfucker down”– referring to the cabin off of highway 38 that Dorner, the “walking exigent circumstance,” had trapped himself in. “It was not intentional,” San Bernardino Sheriff McMahon said with relief. Whew!

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