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Feb. 13, 2013 8:35am Jonathon M. Seidl

By now, you’ve likely seen the news stories that accused cop-killer Christopher Dorner — who led California officials on a state-wide manhunt after apparently killing three people — ended on Tuesday night with him taking the life of another deputy in a firefight and then apparently killing himself and setting his hideout on fire. And while we presented you with audio of the shooting chaos on Tuesday, at that time we didn’t have video. Now we do, and it’s incredible.

CBS News compiled the footage showing reporter Carter Evans hiding behind vehicles as dozens and dozens of shots ring out and smoke grenades fly. Words cannot fully describe what the cameras captured, so we’ll just leave you with the CBS video:

“We have reason to believe that it is him,” San Bernardino County sheriff’s spokeswoman Cynthia Bachman said of the charred body recovered from the fire.

But the gunfight and fire was the culmination of an entire afternoon filled with drama.

The apparent end came very close to where his trail went cold six days earlier when his burning pickup truck – with guns and camping gear inside – was abandoned on a fire road in the San Bernardino National Forest near the ski resort town of Big Bear Lake.

His footprints led away from the truck and vanished on frozen soil.

With no sign of him and few leads, police offered a $1 million reward to bring him to justice and end a “reign of terror” that had more than 50 families of targeted Los Angeles police officers under round-the-clock protection after he threatened to bring “warfare” to the LAPD, officers and their kin.

Just a few hours after police announced Tuesday that they had fielded more than 1,000 tips with no sign of Dorner, word came that a man matching his description had tied up two people in a Big Bear Lake cabin, stole their car and fled. Authorities didn’t immediately give more details on the two people.

CBS Reporter Captures Gun Fight Between Police and Christopher Dorner

This undated photo released by the Los Angeles Police Department shows suspect Christopher Dorner, a former Los Angeles officer. (Photo: AP/Los Angeles Police Department)

Game wardens from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife who were part of the search detail spotted the purple Nissan that had been reported stolen going in the opposite direction and gave chase, department spokesman Lt. Patrick Foy said. The driver looked like Dorner.

They lost the purple car after it passed a school bus and turned onto a side road, but two other Fish and Wildlife patrols turned up that road a short time later, and were searching for the car when a white pickup truck sped erratically toward the wardens.

“He took a close look at the driver and realized it was the suspect,” Foy said.

Dorner, who allegedly stole the pickup truck at gunpoint after crashing the first car, rolled down a window and opened fire on the wardens, striking a warden’s truck more than a dozen times.

One of the wardens shot at the suspect as he rounded a curve in the road. It’s unclear if he hit him, but the stolen pickup careened off the road and crashed in a snow bank. Dorner then ran on foot to the cabin where he barricaded himself and got in a shootout with San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies and other officers who arrived.

Two deputies were shot, one fatally.

A SWAT team surrounded the cabin and used an armored vehicle to break out the cabin windows, said a law enforcement official who requested anonymity because the investigation was ongoing. The officers then pumped a gas into the cabin and blasted a message over a loudspeaker: “Surrender or come out.”

The armored vehicle then tore down each of the cabin’s four walls.

A single shot was heard inside before the cabin was engulfed in flames, the law enforcement official told The Associated Press.

Until Tuesday, authorities weren’t sure Dorner was still in Big Bear Lake, where his pickup truck was found within walking distance from the cabin where he hid.

Even door-to-door searches failed to turn up any trace of him in the quiet, bucolic neighborhood where children were playing in the snow Tuesday night.

With many searchers leaving town amid speculation he was long gone, the command center across the street was taken down Monday.

Ron Erickson, whose house is only about quarter mile away, said officers interrogated him to make sure he wasn’t being held hostage. Erickson himself had been keeping a nervous watch on his neighborhood, but he never saw the hulking Dorner.

“I looked at all the cabins that backed the national forest and I just didn’t think to look at the one across from the command post,” he said. “It didn’t cross my mind. It just didn’t.”

Within hours of being named as a suspect in the killings, the 6-foot, 270-pounder described as armed and “extremely dangerous,” tried unsuccessfully to steal a boat in San Diego to flee to Mexico. After leaving a trail of evidence, he headed north where he opened fire on two patrol cars in Riverside County, shooting three officers and killing one.

With a description of his car broadcast all over the Southwest and Mexico, he managed to get to the mountains 80 miles east of Los Angeles where his burning truck was found with a broken axle.

Only a short distance from the truck, he spent his final days with a front-row seat to the search mobilized right outside.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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DeathfromLR
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:35pm
listen the the video
the overvoice said Dormer used a .50 cal sniper rifle on 2 of the LE.
If he had a .50 cal rifle there would be a lot more dead and injured.
a .50cal would go right through a car or van like a hot knife cutting butter.

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DeathfromLR
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:26pm
LISTEN TO THE VID.
the voice over said that dorner used a 50cal sniper rifle on the 2 officers.That is utter BS.if he had a .50 cal rifle every one of the LE would be dead. A .50cal round with a 650gr projectile at 2600 feet per second would go through any vehicle they were hideing behind

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- N37BU6
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 1:39am
  You’re making a lot of assumptions, one of which being he could see them all from his position.
  
  Just because you have a .50 doesn’t automatically mean you win. This is reality, not a video game. He was outnumbered and cornered. They had full tactical advantage when you think about it: More mobility, equipment, and multiple eyes and ears as well as a communication network. A .50 isn’t going to even the odds.
  
  Let’s just hope for a proper ID of the body so the families can try to get their lives sorted.
  
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Heb4Seven
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:13pm
Well done,…That’s just the kind of foolish comment that classifies even the ‘Sensible Gun-Owners’ into the ‘stereo-type’ of ‘those crazy gun people’.

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Bamagal0007
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:48pm
This guy was a murderer and the way I see it, he got what was coming to him. What makes it even better is the money that law enforcement saved the taxpayers!

Want to feel sorry for someone? How about the young couple who were slaughtered at his hand?

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- Fubared
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:57pm
  A user you are far and beyond a useless pos. There is no parallel between the two, but you are a useless, smarmy pos. Stock up on throwing stars.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 2:59pm
  FUBARED, LOL. How true you are. And, now you are a murderer too. AUSELESSNAME has now lost it more than BARYMETHELIZABETH!
  
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Steve LeMaster
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:43pm
Dorner was assassinted
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCdqybEfy9w&feature=share

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- Bamagal0007
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:51pm
  Good grief, are you one of his sympathetic followers?
  
  He’s dead and that is exactly what he deserves.
  
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- circleDwagons
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 3:37pm
  @bama… a lot of people deserve death. We have a court system in this country. I am glad that those two women that where shot where not killed. If they had been killed by the cops would we have gotten stories about their guilt? I am very glad that he is dead now the cops can’t use him as an excuse to shoot civilians.
  
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- DiRT
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 7:17pm
  “burners” are BurnSafe containers used for tear gas. LAPD didn’t kill Dorner, but he sure as fact killed innocent people.
  
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- Ballot_Box_Revolution
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 7:50pm
  I’m not sympathetic for a loss of this man. The world is a better place w/o him. However I am sympathetic to an assault on Liberty. I had hoped they would catch him, give him a speedy trial and a death sentence which can’t be done in CA….but that is their fault. Probably why he stayed in CA along with the fact that private gun ownership is lower there.
  
  That being said I feared this guy much much much less than I do a police state, where a gov has every tool they need to place a bad image on anyone they dislike, play on peoples fears so they demand/hope to have the Calvary come in and save the day, by any means! Constitutional or not. Ends justify the means!!
  
  Very similar to the Cloward and Pivon strategy to create chaotic state so the citizens will call on the gov to come in and just do something!!!
  
  This is all Beck 101 try applying it to other situations!!
  
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- Ballot_Box_Revolution
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 7:52pm
  @Dirt
  He said we’re going with the pla….we’re going with the burn.
  
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Steve LeMaster
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:42pm
No doubt about it. Dorner was assassinated.
https://www.facebook.com/felix.yanosky?fref=pymk

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- AUsername
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:59pm
  yeah if your a hostage in a situation you can’t rely on the police to save, there more likely to kill you than the criminal now.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 3:12pm
  Felix Yanosky? LOL, you may as well have posted a link to Alex Jones in the one above. “Burner” is police jargon for CS/tear gas canisters. While in the service we’ve had to literally stop some FTXs to jump out of foxholes to go put out forest fires started by usually smoke and occasionally CS. The CS really sucked making it so much fun to work at putting out fires while wearing a protective mask.
  But, to make it safe for you go outside where you might find yourself in the presence of police officers, simply put a few wraps of duct tape from under your chin up and over the top of your tin foil hat.
  
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- DiRT
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 7:18pm
  LAPD didn’t kill Dorner, but he sure as fact killed innocent people. “burners” are BurnSafe containers used for tear gas.
  
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- Ballot_Box_Revolution
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 8:16pm
  So you are not even willing to question the situation??? You shame Gadsden. And so much for that “Question with boldness, EVEN THE EXISTENCE OF GOD…for if there is a God…”.You know the rest you have heard Beck preach it a million time……Me too. I was a loyal Beck follower at one time, but I actually did question everything…..the ones that didn’t….well they are still sitting in their living rooms waiting for Beck to question with boldness for them so they can save the world….
  
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major matt mason
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:36pm
So the lapd had one of their own go rogue. They knew they had a loose cannon, how many other do they have? Were the officers that were shooting and deciced to use a fire bomb white? Just saying, wait for it because you know its coming. No justice no peace. I guess they showed him and everyone else who would even think of standing in the way of due process. I wonder if Major Hassan is having a nice day, the workplace killer? The prezze said Dorner deserved a vote. I guess they voted for him.

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- ENIGMA28724
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 3:10pm
  Tear gas and smoke grenades emit heat as they function. It’s quite possible they actually ignited the cabin rather than the suspect. I have questions how he managed to pass the LAPD mental eval to be considered for training as a police officer. Please pray for his victim’s families and fellow officers involved in the manhunt and final ending.
  
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hi-polymer
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:14pm
Nice weapons fire soundtrack. I wonder which gun range they recorded it at. They’re not even trying to make it look real anymore. I mean didn’t we see this same movie on a larger scale at Waco? I don’t know what this is really all about, but it’s not what we’re being spoon fed by the corprate media.

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- SocialistSlayer
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:31pm
  I agree – And everyone is on the side of the Corrupt Militarized Police Force – What fools ! Do you really think they are out there protecting you ? The enemy is our government people ! Don’t believe anything they say !
  
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- GoodStuff
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:39pm
  @h-polymer and socialist slayer
  
  You both need medication. Are you part of the Dormer fan club?
  
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- hi-polymer
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 5:40pm
  No you don’t agree with me. I didn’t say anything like that. Read my post again.
  
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- hi-polymer
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 5:46pm
  Goodstuff, I couldn’t care less about this Dormer guy. As I said to Socialistslayer, read my post again.
  
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AmericanStrega
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 11:44am
I won’t believe Dorner is dead until there is proof. He was able to out fox the police for a week. Maybe he still is. Personally, I hope he is dead.

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- banjarmon
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:12pm
  The same with osama…I want to see proof!!
  
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lvjohn
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 11:38am
I am glad that this murdering thug is dead, we need to have more justice like this.

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- Malcom0983
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 11:55am
  You’re confusing justice with vengance. There is a reason, as laughable as it may seem, our courts are called “the justice system” and our police aren’t called “the vengance system.”
  
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- Malcom0983
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:04pm
  Vengeance*
  
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- SocialistSlayer
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:32pm
  There’s also a reason this man would have never been taken alive – The Corrupt police wouldn’t let it happen ! They don’t want the truth about them out there !
  
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- GoodStuff
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:38pm
  Malcomb is a pansy. This guy had already killed multiple officers, including in yesterday’s shootout. He wanted to die, and he got his wish.
  
  The police-hating Paulbots will be sad though.
  
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thebabyguy
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 10:37am
First off, the guy was stupid for being too close, And if he got his **** shot off, he would have deserved it for being so stupid. And the media would have been all teary talking about how brave he was. Idiots!

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bhosux
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 10:32am
Notice how many times they made sure to include themselves into the story? Plus, they take credit for being the ” only ” news source there. The local and natioal media is the fuel and foundation that serves the politicians. It’s time to focus on and to correct the real problem. Weak media makes for a weak political arena.

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huntinwabbits
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 10:25am
“Hiding in plain sight.” I wonder with so much of the media there if he wasn’t able to turn on the tv and see every move being made. I’m no expert but it sounds a lot easier to hide in plain sight if you can see every move your ‘enemy’ is making.

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- woodyee
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 11:14am
  That’s what Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap said.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 3:14pm
  I heard a brief report a little while ago speculating that Dorner may actually have been hiding in the cabin/house directly across the street from the one used for the police command center.
  
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AUsername
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 10:05am
so that robotic vehicle than must have set the house on fire, wow so gun owners during confiscation if you see a robot like in the video you might want to stop it from getting near your house otherwise your house will be on fire.

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justsayin456
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 9:55am
Clearly the only thing left to do is to speculate wildly.

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- Bloody Sam
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 10:05am
  Did you all get a good look?
  This is what the scene outside your house, my house and many, many more houses will look like when the local constabulary….armed and equipped like the US Military…comes for your firearms.
  
  So…anyone still think that “just regular folks” don’t need AR-15s? M-14s?
  The first step will be registration. After that, the die is cast.
  Wake up and smell the cordite people.
  
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- GoodStuff
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:41pm
  More Dorner fans eh? You’re all nuts.
  
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- American Soldier (Separated)
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 5:34pm
  Won’t matter since how we know they’ll just set out house on fire and call it a day.
  
  Since when was setting a house on fire SOP in police work?
  
  Especially since all reports say they didn’t even have 100% confirmation that it was Dorner in that house. No Positive ID yet they still burned the house down. No matter what you think of Dorner and his killing spree, this has GOT to make you worry!
  
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Born2Run
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 9:51am
No justice.

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ThoreauHD
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 9:39am
So when you say “watch” the footage, you don’t actually mean watch it. I see.

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IndyGuy
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 9:22am
I believe the cops torched the place on purpose….As they should have since they knew they were dealing with a heartless murderer that wanted to take as many with him as possible….Enough was enough…

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- Malcom0983
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 11:59am
  They did torch it on purpose. There is audio of them calling to burn it. That is crazy considering they didn’t know if he had taken any other hostages. “The innocent be damned, we’re getting our man. Waco style.”
  
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SREGN
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 9:20am
His silence is now assured. Move along. Nothing to see here.

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- Bamagal0007
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 11:37am
  LOL…sympathy for a murderer…strange days indeed.
  
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 9:05am
I venture to now say that Dorner likely set the fire in cabin, then shot himself. From the scenes in the video as well as the description, the police deployed smoke canisters in hopes of providing concealment to recover their injured. Doubtful that they managed to toss a canister inside the cabin. Dorner knew this would not end well for himself, and stated so in his manifesto. From reading that I gathered that he would die in a blazing shoot out, or end it himself as he gave up hope of escaping. Just my humble opinion.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 9:12am
  I do need to add that I realize that the story says that the police did manage to “pump” gas into the cabin. Since I have no idea how they pumped the gas in, that is what gives me the idea that Dorner himself likely set the fire. But, if it means they managed to pump a gas canister into the cabin, that could have started the fire.
  
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- tyuchic
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 9:41am
  how ’bout the scanner traffic with police talking about throwing “burners” (tear gas canisters) into the cabin and then multiple voices broadcasting to “burn the m’fer up”? don’t kid yourself. and don’t get caught on the wrong side of law enforcement, real or imagined.
  
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- JP4JOY
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 9:42am
  Remember how they “Pumped Gas” at Waco? Same thing, me thinks.
  
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- BrutalTruth
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 10:03am
  TYUCHIC, Law has nothing to do with it. Don’t get caught on the wrong side of those in power.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 10:12am
  TYUCHIC, I must confess that I missed the scanner traffic earlier, but have since heard it. I will not begin to fabricate any cover for the police, but at the same time I do ask if you think they should never let the adrenalin affect them to shout such things? Obviously, the wrong thing to say. I am retired Army and a former civilian police officer. Yes, there are some cops out there that shouldn’t be, but at the same time, there are some damned fine police officers out there as they should be. I caution you to consider this though. The hardest thing to cover up is a very large conspiracy operation in which the thousands of officers involved will all keep quiet about it. If the police did something wrong, somebody will eventually talk about it. Much like Waco, a lot of info eventually did come out. But, Clinton’s newly appointed Janet Reno would never do anything about it. My recommendation is to hang up the tin foil hat for now and pay attention while checking a variety of sources. More info will come out in the coming months.
  
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- DiRT
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 7:20pm
  Shooting tear gas into a home is NOT setting it on fire.
  
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honor007
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 8:59am
I was listening to that while doing some work. That was very eery. And the guy that called in to prank this station from the Howard Stern show should be charged with Obstruction….IMO.

I’m glad Christopher Dorner is dead.

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denkat56
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 8:58am
Oh dearie dearie me. Another reporter in the way.

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LenInSebastopol
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 8:54am
Job well done. We need not know “why” and study him as if he were the “victim” or “understand” his motives and “fix” them.

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Mr.Fitnah
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 8:45am
Just like Waco tear gas then a fire …who would have thunk it?

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- GoodStuff
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:42pm
  Hey Dorner fans, seek help. I hope the FBI is tracking you right now.
  
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- RDavis49
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:47pm
  IMO It was murder by cops …. They made themselves judge, jury and executioners, plain and simple, as they do in too many instances, including when innocent people are gunned down …. Not that I have an ounce of sympathy or compassion for this cold blooded killer’s demise or approve of his conduct in any way, but the cops conduct was little less than his. They were out for revenge for this ex-cop’s killing of fellow officers, not so much for legal justice. The suspect was out numbered, out gunned, surrounded and trapped and he wasn’t going anywhere…. so, was it really necessary to kill him? Had he been killed during a fire fight, that would have been a different deal altogether. It’s clear as glass that the cops had no thought or intention of taking him alive and risking the truth coming out about the LAPD’s violent, abusive, and excessive us of force against citizens in LA being exposed. This guy crossed the “Blue Line” of the police brotherhood. You people who are so quick to side with the cops are all worked up by emotion and too trusting, until it’s your turn under the billyclub and a boot in the ribs or head, then your entire opinions and emotions change.
  
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midnightsun
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 8:42am
Well at least now the taxpayers won’t have to keep his **** in jail for the rest of his life. They can use that money to pay the women the cops shots because they thought it was Dorner in the truck.

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