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CNN Panelist’s Shock Claim: LA Cop Killer’s Rampage ‘Almost Like Watching Django Unchained in Real Life; It’s Kind of Exciting’

Feb. 13, 2013 5:19pm Jason Howerton

Columbia Profressors Shock Claim on CNN: Dorners Rampage Almost Like Watching Django Unchained in Real Life; Its Kind of Exciting

Marc Lamont Hill (source: Philly.com)

Suspected cop killer Christopher Dorner is believed to have been killed in Tuesday’s dramatic standoff with police that ended in flames at a cabin in Big Bear, Calif. However, there are still a number of questions left to answer, including how a murderer earned a fan base.

During a panel discussion on CNN Wednesday, Marc Lamont Hill, host of HuffPost Live and associate professor at Columbia University, said he understands why people were rooting for Dorner. He also made some shocking remarks about his murderous rampage.

“This has been an important conversation that we’ve had about police brutality, about police corruption, about state violence,” Hill said.

“As far as Dorner himself goes, he’s been like a real life superhero to many people,” he added. “Don’t get me wrong, what he did was awful, killing innocent people was bad, but when you read his manifesto, when you read the message that he left, he wasn’t entirely crazy.”

Dorner’s supporters were rooting for him because they wanted to see him get vengeance against the system that wronged him, according to Hill.

“It’s almost like watching ‘Django Unchained’ in real life,” Hill explained. “It’s kind of exciting.”

Here’s how “exciting” it was. Dorner killed two cops and two other innocent people during his shooting spree. Among the victims were Monica Quan, a 28-year-old assistant coach at Cal State Fullerton, 27-year-old USC safety officer Keith Lawrence, who was also Quan’s fiancé, Riverside police officer Michael Crain, 34, and a San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy.

Dorner’s killing rampage probably wasn’t very “exciting” to the victims and their families.

Hill argued that Dorner exposed police brutality and corruption within the LAPD and several of the panelists agreed that his rampage should serve as a catalyst for the country to have that conversation.

Another panelist said “the narrative of Christopher Dorner” resembles a Denzel Washington movie, in which “he was “wronged and stands up for himself and goes out in a blaze of glory. It’s hard for it not to turn into a movie.”

“Exactly,” Hill agreed.

Watch the entire segment via CNN/Mediaite:

As Townhall’s Katie Pavlich points out, Hill actually co-authored a book with convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal in December 2011.

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Comments (171)

Lily82
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 7:38pm
Oh yes, life is really a fantasy..a movie! Need we say more about how we got into this mess?

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froggy19510
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 7:32pm
CNN Panelist’s Shock Claim: LA Cop Killer’s Rampage ‘Almost Like Watching Django Unchained in Real Life; It’s Kind of Exciting’

Wonder how exciting if it was their family members that had been killed. What a bunch of complete idiots.

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Comcast3
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 7:15pm
Super-hero?? Using Lamont Hill’s logic, the Sandy Hook shooter must have also been a super-hero. How does he continue to get work?

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ola
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 6:59pm
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FeralHuman
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 6:54pm
I think Christopher had a better way to handle this. He went on a murdering spree which he paid for and I am glad he paid with his life.

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txannie
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 6:40pm
The blacks have become the racist oppressors of anything lighter than themselves. Imagine, not learning or benefiting from past history. You know what they say about forgetting history…I’m afraid it’s gonna get rough…Not only have they forgotten how horrible it is to be discriminated against, they have forgotten the history of how repression and oppression is usually settled.

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- Acena
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 8:02pm
  The first US slave was Anthony Johnson .
  Johnson was captured by slave traders in his native Angola and sold as a slave to a merchant working for the Virginia Company.
  He arrived in Virginia in 1621
  Johnson was sold to a white planter named Bennet to work on his Virginia tobacco farm as an indentured servant.
  Johnson was freed at the end of his indenture cotract.
  
  By July 1651 Johnson had five indentured servants of his own and 500 acres.
  
  Slavery was officially established in Virginia in 1654, when Johnson convinced a court that his servant John Casor (also a black man), was his for life.
  
  The court ruling in Johnson’s favor resulted in Casor becoming the first state-recognized slave in the Colony of Virginia.
  
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soybomb315_II
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 6:33pm
damn – everyone is focusing on the media circus instead of the actual story. Did the LAPD want him dead? There are more questions to be asked, let us not act like we did for sandy hook

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- froggy19510
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 7:37pm
  Who cares if LAPD wanted him dead. It wasthe Big Bear police that got him.
  I wonder. If he would have killed some of your friends how you would feel about it.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 8:16pm
  as a society, we should want justice not vengeance
  
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barber2
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 6:31pm
If this guy is a ” professor,” is it any wonder our young voters are so, vapid, mixed up and morally deficit ?

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kfonda
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 6:30pm
Dorner was every bit as sick and evil as the guy who shot up the school in Connecticut or the guy who shot up the theater in Colorado or any of the other a-hole’s that think they can justify taking an innocent persons life to get their message heard. Anyone that supports what Dorner did should have no problem with what the other shooters did.

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JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 6:23pm
CNN who?

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DefyTYRANNY
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 6:21pm
Ok, so Racism and bigotry, plus killing police is cool now according to the left.

The true face comes out.

Of course it is only condoned if it is their people doing it obviously.

All hail the double standard of hypocrisy. Nice. Show those colors, the world is watching.

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alinskythis
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 6:19pm
Listening to Dr. Hill on the radio is always difficult due to his tiresome, ubiquitous presentation of self-escalating agitation. Who ACTS that way, except a puppet using intimidation to brainwash the public.

Like so many other “liberals,” the discussion immediately dissolves and conflict and anger become the stars. It becomes obvious after enough of this routine that there IS NO argument, thus the need to hijack everyone’s attention to his own projected victimization.

Put together with his obvious racial bias, I give him as much due as any other Radical Left mouthpiece, as much as I can, and THAT is seriously diminishing.

I’ve always thought the Radical Marxist Communist Nazis were mentally compromised to the point of sociopathy, and every display like this one proves that point.

The world has an infection and needs its medicine now to wipe out the bugs.

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dodgedart1966
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 6:17pm
Strange, they say they are ‘owed’ because of slavery, yet none of those saying it were slaves. If the current gov’t. has to pay reparations, and I pay taxes to the gov’t., why do I have to pay reparations when I’ve never enslaved anyone?
If people like him would just shut up, racism would probably go away.

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- barber2
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 6:34pm
  Bingo. You have summed up the dysfunctionally and insanity of the so-called ” social justice ” movement which is merely a twisted phrase for anger, hate, and revenge….
  
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Advection
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 6:16pm
These people are proud of their racism. They openly cheer blacks who murder whites. They actually think murder is great.

Liberals are sick as hell.

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civilwarcometh
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 6:11pm
Dorner was black so that makes him smart and justified. The other recent murderers were white so their crazy…Now do you really think George Zimmerman will be found not guilty???

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crystalsky
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 6:11pm
1 More thing if dorner was after the professor I don’t think he would have thought it was exciting. He probably would be peeing his pants. and I don’t think he would want his yard to be a no gun zone.

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Brasil2520
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 6:10pm
“Killing all white people how great is that” ! – Jamie Foxx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnCBNho9Kak
This is our new black world comedy, I’m sure in South Africa, Zimbabwe . . . killing whites is a big joke also.

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IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 6:10pm
As far as I am concerned we have never had such racism talk or as much fighting in the middle east as there is now and the racism talk came from the President when he said “the police acted stupidly” when he didn’t have all the facts. A big mouth, a big government and a big ego gets a person nowhere and hurts a lot of others. SO THINK BEFORE YOU GOSSIP

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mbean
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 6:06pm
He loves killers: http://www.amazon.com/Classroom-Cell-Conversations-Black-America/dp/0883783371

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IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 6:06pm
Gossip is all so a corruption, Marc. So best you keep mouth shut at a time of grief for others

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Gargent_Furball
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 6:06pm
I loved the movie D Jango, A good wholesome family movie about the south and it’s struggle to be free.

My whole family sat around eating popcorn and enjoyed this movie.

One of the best so far this year.

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Antares2000
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 5:59pm
These people are sick. Innocent people are dead. There’s nothing EXCITING about it. If this guy had a legitimate grievance, thats what the courts are for. Taking people’s lives because you think they’re guilty is not the way we do things in this country…well except for the President with his drones, but i digress. Innocent until proven guilty. That is how we as Americans do it. Furthermore, if they do make this into a movie (I have no doubt some sick hollywood director is dreaming it up right now), I will not be spending money to see it, and I encourage everyone to boycott it. No one should prosper from the death of innocents.

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http://www.facebook.com/#!/citizens4commonsense

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AvengerK
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 5:55pm
Ah yes..the smiling “you know I hate whitey even though you’ll never hear me say it in public” sock puppet “Professor” Lamont Hill. He’s a professor of nothing useful to anyone except to angry racists and leftists. His salary is tantamout to telling your employer to tear up your paycheck each pay period.

What does it say about us as a society that the real human toll of the shooting rampage of an unhinged individual is reduced to “it’s hard not to turn it into a movie” by the sociopaths masquerading as social commentators in today’s marxstream media. The smiling, guffawing chimpanzee Lamont Hill likening Dorner’s real life killings to the “angry black guy/race hustler” wet dream of the movie “Django Unchained”. It’s like watching emotionally under-developed teenagers creaming themselves with likening Columbine to the game Doom or Duke Nukem…I almost expected Hill to burst out with an “oh yeah did you see that cop go down? Awesome dawg…I need to save this level so I don’t lose it”. Someone should have just spat on the useless piece of human debris and told him to make a movie out of that..”exactly”.

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soybomb315_II
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 5:55pm
If it werent for the federal war on drugs, there would be a lot less gangs and violence in the LA area – and the LAPD would be half the size it currently is. It is likely that without the war on drugs, this tragedy would not have occured.

Something to think about

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AUsername
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 5:54pm
I agree with the professor on this, its entertaining stuff that doesn;t have happen often and it was kind of like an action movie and he died with some kills on his scorecard. i bet you neo cons would agree Iraq and Afghanistan was was exciting in that way probably in different words.

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 6:02pm
  i will never forget the smiles on fox news when the bombs started falling on Baghdad. I remember cuz i too was a neocon at the time
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 6:10pm
  Is English your first language AUSERNAME?
  
  “kills on his scorecard”….really? You pretend to have the moral high-ground over your poorly expressed (and tediously predictable) invocation of “neo cons” (sic) and the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan but you call Dorner’s killing of four human beings in his madness, his “scorecard”?
  
  Would you be as flippant if I lined up your family and put them on my “scorecard”? No..you’d be an inconsolable mess and all that phony bravado you’re trying to impress on us here would turn into a yellow puddle forming on the floor between your legs. Cur.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 6:17pm
  Do you remember the smiles on those Palestinians’ faces when they danced in the streets as the planes hit the WTC too SOREBUM?
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKT-9OpneoY
  Do you like those smiles champ? Were you doing that arab “loo loo loo” thing with your tongue as the people jumped out of the skycrapers to their deaths rather than be burned alive?
  Or maybe you like the smiles on those Iraqis faces as they prodded the burned bodies of those dead pilots that they hung on that bridge over the Euphrates? Is that neocon enough for you little fella?
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 6:22pm
  if you want to go kill all those people who were on camera smiling (including fox news)…..Then i am ok with that. Just do it yourself and dont use my tax money for it
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 6:35pm
  Do you think harsh language would have worked instead SOREBUM? It’s cheaper.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 6:54pm
  not really
  
  fallen world
  
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