Fnord wrote:
Fugitive ex-cop believed dead, as cabin stronghold goes up in flames
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The dramatic manhunt for a fugitive ex-LAPD cop who killed at least four people apparently ended when the cabin he holed up in went up in flames, with ammunition exploding and smoke billowing up into the mountain air.
Christopher Dorner, who hours earlier had killed one San Bernadino sheriff's deputy and wounded another before barricading himself in the cabin, in the San Bernadino mountains, was believed to be inside. Dorner, who vowed not to be taken alive, had been surrounded inside the cabin since early Tuesday afternoon. It was not clear who set the fire in the rural Big Bear community where Dorner apparently has been hiding since sometime last week.
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/02/12/fu ... z2Kjk93KDmWaste of a good cabin.
It would be nice if you stop looking at the world in absolute terms Fnord, but I guess you can't teach an old dog new tricks.
Dorner had a middle class upbringing and a university graduate in politics/psychology and played college football in Utah. He also spent 11 years in the Navy reserves. He was also described as highly honest after finding $2000 in a satchel belonging to a Korean church which he returned to the police who were amazed he didn't keep it.
Despite a normal upbringing His troubles started in school where he was the only african-american in his class and was forced to physically fight against bullies who taunted him racially for many years. He may also have had PTSD from his time in the navy. After joining the LAPD Dorner witnessed a police beating in 2008 where he testified that a fellow officer (Teresa Evans) had assaulted a suspect in the chest and face. The events that transpired appeared to indicate the LAPD not only rejected Dorner's testimony but that he was also slapped with disciplinary proceeding and discharged from the police.
My guess is Dorner felt he was the victim of injustice and police corruption and this had been brewing inside of him for 5 years. He decided (in a Sylvester Stallone kind of way) to take vengeance on the LAPD. Unfortunately his sense of justice became distorted and his twisted mental state of mind made him choose to attack and kill a innocent party related to the object of his hatred in order to exact revenge.
What transipred is a set of tragic circumstances that really started for Dorner in his childhood. He certainly is no hero but he is perhaps a victim of a society where racism, police corruption and lack of mental health services led to this tragedy taking place. While nobody is expected to mourn Chris Dorner (we should rightly be sympathetic to his victims) he is himself a victim of mental illness.