Thirteen demonstrators, calling themselves “We Stand With Christopher Dorner,” gathered in front of Los Angeles Police Department’s headquarters in Los Angeles today to decry the death of the fired L.A. policeman as he faced arrest.
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The small number of protesters was expected to grow to more than 200 by noon, organizers said.
“We’re protesting some of the police brutality — not just LAPD, but all over the nation,” said Lomita resident Vincent Namm, a former Marine. “With Chris Dorner, habeas corpus just got thrown out the window.”
“I’m a veteran myself,” he told City News Service. “It’s like they (the police) were judge, jury and executioner. Of course, if the police are those three things, we have something called a police state.
“They didn’t seem like they were even interested in apprehending him,” Hamm said.
Radio communications between San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies captured deputies calling on colleagues to burn down the cabin near Angelus Oaks, where the suspected cop-killer had just shot two deputies and was holed up.
Dorner had already killed two policemen and the daughter of a retired officer, and was shooting at the deputies when the radio messages were broadcast.
San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon insisted Friday that deputies did not intentionally set fire to the cabin to get Dorner out of the cabin.
McMahon said the comments were not made by command personnel and were unauthorized, off-hand remarks by deputies or officers who were under heavy gunfire.
Today’s demonstrators began to gather a little before 10 a.m. near the corner of First and Main streets before making their way to 100 W. First St., where they were met by yellow police tape bordering LAPD headquarters.
There were at least three officers at different positions in front of the building, along with three parked television vans.
Namm said demonstrators would probably stay until about 3 p.m. and remain peaceful.
Some people on social media and elsewhere have expressed support for some of the criticisms of the department Dorner expressed in a lengthy manifesto posed online amid his 10-day killing spree.
“The police don’t do the right things — especially when it comes to Latinos and blacks,” said Antonia Ramos, one of the protestors. “It wasn’t fair how this guy (Dorner) died.”
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Maybe Namm should have donned a police uniform and tried to apprehend Dorner himself.
Dave you will never understand. I am quite sure you’re a white man who has no idea what discrimination is. You have no idea. So keep your sarcastic comments to yourself. To make a comment like that you do not even attempt to empathize with other human beings, so it implies to me that you are a self centered person who imbues people of other ethnicity’s as inferior, therefore they’re experiences and opinions are automatically false. You ate far from being evolved in any sort of meaningful way.
If you lived in Big Bear and had this low life SOB hiding out because he killed cops and civilians intentionally, you might be happy he came to an end that was deserved. For those of us who worried that our families might be harmed by Dorner, I can say that his demise was welcomed. He knew exactly what he was doing; read his manifesto about killing innocent families and then realize the man needed extermination.
Bob its ovious that your out of tune with the reality ahead. You need to stay hidden from the real world in big bear. You failed to mention anything about the two women police rained bullets into there car, or the man who driving his truck, a squad car rams without warning. All the wrong police beatings that gets shoved under the rug on a daily base. When you make it back to reality, and away from your sheltered life in big bear, maybe you will open your eyes and see further then your nose.
The real protest will come when they find his firing to be legitimate. Anyone expect a different decision? It is so easy to write in hindsight but there were so many very questionable moves by all agencies involved throughout the whole ordeal. One that does really stand out is burning down a cabin without certainty of occupants. That is scary.
Cesar, you are an easy read. I am quite sure YOU are a young Hispanic in his late teens or early twenties who attends a college like UCR and does not pay a dime. I suspect you personally have never experienced a true act of discrimination in your life. I see you on the front lines of the illegal immigrant controversy, screaming “racisim,” and not “law enforcement.” Your ignorance is your transparency and you embarress yourself with your lack of acceptance of diverse opinions and your dependence on “the crutch” of ethnicity. Similar to people like you, Dorner played the “race card” only after his own incompetence was exposed. He reported an alleged act of brutality weeks after it happened and only after having been threatened with removal from the field for CRYING in a police car. He was a coward who murdered an African American while he railed against predjudice and injustice. He implied he was the savior of the average citizen and then murdered a defensless woman. He murdered policemen without allowing them a fighting chance and when it came down to living up to his manifesto, he went out with a whimper like the coward that he was…with a bullet to the brain! Yes Ceasar, the days of crying “racism” for the sake of intimidation are behind you. The silent majority demands you back up your allegations with facts and not the rantings of a self serving lunitic!