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‘Clear His Name!’: Protesters Rally in Support of Christopher Dorner Outside LAPD Headquarters

Feb. 16, 2013 9:41pm Erica Ritz

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

Dozens of protesters rallied outside Los Angeles police headquarters Saturday in support of Christopher Dorner, the ex-LAPD officer and suspected killer of four who died after a shootout and fire this week at a mountain cabin.

Dorner was the subject of a massive manhunt in association with the murders, and claimed in a manifesto that has been attributed to him that the LAPD is corrupt and that he was a victim of racism.

Protesters were careful to say that they don’t necessarily support Dorner’s deadly methods, but that they object to police corruption and brutality. They also said they believe Dorner was telling the truth in his many claims about the LAPD.

Thirty-year-old protester Michael Nam held a sign with a flaming tombstone and the inscription “RIP Habeas Corpus.”

KTLA’s Christina Pascucci posted these photos of the scene on Instagram:

(Photo: Instagram/christinapascucci)

“How the police handled this -– they were the judge, the jury and the executioner,” Nam said according to the Los Angeles Times. “As an American citizen, you have the right to a trial and due process by law.”

“Dorner did what he did because that’s what he felt he needed to do,” protester James Pedregon reportedly added. “I think that’s a little extreme, there’s always a peaceful method of dealing with the situation, but it’s getting the right people to listen to you.”

47-year-old Escoto of West Los Angeles Dina Escoto explained herself: “I’m angry because the police didn’t conduct a thorough investigation – this man wouldn’t have gone on a rampage if he was wrong.”

In addition to the story’s fiery conclusion, many were upset that the LAPD fired on two vehicles that they suspected were Dorner’s, though he was in neither. In the process, they reportedly shot a woman in the back.

This combination of photos shows, from top row left, NCCA college basketball coach Monica Quan, USC Department of Public Safety Officer Keith Lawrence, San Bernardino Sheriff’s Deputy Jeremiah MacKay and Riverside Police Department Officer Michael Crain, bottom row right, who were killed by rampage suspect, former Los Angeles Police Department officer Christopher Dorner. (Photo: AP)

The L.A. Times has more from the rally:

“If you’re not enraged, you’re not paying attention,” one sign read.

“Why couldn’t we hear his side?”

“Clear his name! Christopher Dorner”

Liliana Alaniz, 40, came with her family -– her mother, sister, nieces and daughters -– from Long Beach to join the protest, which she said was her first.

“I really, really believe he was innocent in the firing case,” Alaniz said of Dorner.

Alaniz held a sign that read, “Trying to clear your name.”

Her daughter, Andrea Tovar, said Dorner “has his supporters.”

“Murder is never right, but neither is the law when it’s unjust,” said Tovar, 18. She said police need to know they “can’t get away with everything.”

The protesters are not the first to sympathize with Dorner. He attracted a cult-like following on social media, and CNN guest Marc Lamont Hill came under heavy fire for saying it was “kind of exciting” watching the murderer last week (he later apologized).

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

(H/T: Twitchy)

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American1969
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 3:05am
Charles Manson has his groupies too…go figure…
Disgusting!

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Acena
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 1:45am
THE BIG MICK
And you know every police officer felt hatred for Dorner and wanted revenge how?
You are making assumptions of other people’s feelings ,motives and personalities .
Dorner wasn’t just a threat to the police,he murdered completely innocent people .He took people hostage and car jacked a man.He made it clear he wanted to mass murder people and did not value his life.

Hindsight is always 20/20 and making judgments from a personal perspective completely detached from an event is easy.
You should volunteer to stop the next crazed mass murderer ,i’m sure you’d do much better than the police .

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stm62
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 1:42am
Rest In Peace: Monica, Jeremiah, Keith and Michael. May your loved ones also be comforted.

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jman-6
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 1:18am
Dorner was a coward and a cold blooded killer! Nothing less nothing more Simple as that! Now my Point! The LAPD MUST I Repeat MUST be held accountable & Perp Walked for their Careless & Reckless lawlessness!
- Attempted Murder & Assault with a Deadly Weapon with Intent to Kill and Inflict Serious bodily Harm…Shooting at two innocent ladies in a truck, never attempted to disable or stop it. If the reporting is correct LAPD shot another woman in the back! While many won’t see it this way, the LAPD had a right to shoot back at him but doesn’t have a right to Waco the dude by setting a building on fire! That’s a slippery slope to go down if we overlook it as self defense and sets a terrible precedent that will haunt us later! I’m in no way defending this killer but many other lives have been drastically & forever altered due to reckless behavior exibited by those “thugs” in the LAPD!

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barber2
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 12:57am
There were so many innocent children affected by Dorner’s revenge.

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Charbet
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 12:55am
His name should never be cleared, no matter what accomplishments he may have had in life, they became null and void when he murdered innocent people.

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amadan32
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 12:52am
I was at the gym the other day and they had MSNBC on(yuch). Well here is Ed Schultz going on and on about how this guy was condioned by society and it was everyone else fault .

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- truthnstuff
  Posted on February 17, 2013 at 11:50am
  Ed Shitz was making the point that this poor black man was oppressed by the evil whote society and it was not his fault. All the stupid and ignorant white mowroons will be chanting the same thing. The liberals will use any and all dysfunction to promote their cause.
  
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pissantno.10
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 12:27am
how come all we see of this guy is him a big happy guy . just like travon no lets not publish what he normaly looks like that would scare the hell out of people.

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The Big Mick
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 12:24am
Screw your Faux Dilemmas, folks.
To JUSTLY criticize the UNPROFESSIONAL conduct of The Police in their Personal Vendetta here is NOT to support Doonob.
THEY were SUPPOSED to be BETTER!
They lost their cool. They CANNOT do that. Understandable or not WE, who depend on their STAYING cool, cannot afford it, allow it, or fail to JUDGE it when they do not.
Four people shot, who in NO way COULD have presented a threat, says all that needs to be said about the Unprofessional, Undisciplined, and maybe even the Downright COWARDLY under threat, conduct of the Police. UNACCEPTABLE conduct. Unacceptable ATTITUDE. Unacceptable institutional mind set.
NOTHING Doonob did can Justify or Mitigate it. We SWEAR THEM TO AN OATH to ACT differently. To ACT on OUR behalf, NOT on their own for “their own.”
The ONLY proper response of ALL the Police involved in this is SHAME, the only appropriate ACTION, Group Apology. Not for Doornob, but for what they did to the rest of us in their thirst for Vengence.

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- txannie
  Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:46am
  @big mick…while I don’t quite agree with all you say, the police, in this case, certainly did go after this guy with a vengance. If they looked for ALL the bad people in like manner I don’t think we would have quite so many willing to take the chance of breaking the law. Granted, I know we don’t have the funding for enough officers, yada, yada, yada,…but..it’s like the old Texas town with one jail cell. If you were in that cell and someone broke the law, the sherriff shot the one in the cell to put the new lawbreaker in it and then that one sat hoping no one else broke the law before thier sentence was up. If the punishment and the promise of being hunted down for breaking the law was actually a deterent maybe we wouldn’t have so many criminals.
  
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pwatkins
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 12:18am
Can’t the media find another picture of Dorner rather than this smiling cop killing creep. It is more shameful than looking at a 10 year old picture of Trayvon, the thug beside an orange uniformed Zimmerman..

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barber2
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 12:12am
Let me guess who was behind this : Van Jones , Obama’s old czar and the old Oakland activist / and the Obama divisive ” police acting stupidly” rhetoric after 50 years of Affirmative Action, and trillions of our tax payers’ dollars into programs to resolve ” discrimination ” issues . Remember the old Oakland riot which destroyed the hard earned work of mom and pop businesses which were looted and destroyed. Give me a break : I am sick of people crying ” discrimination .” Thanks to Obama and his Chicago radicals, like Bill Ayers, we are experiencing the ugly 60s on steroids … luckily we have only experienced CHARACTER assassinations…to date…

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Javed
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 12:06am
An ode to fallen ‘hero’ Christopher Dorner http://bit.ly/12U4ff0

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TheBurningTruth
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 11:57pm
“How the police handled this -– they were the judge, the jury and the executioner,” Nam said according to the Los Angeles Times. “As an American citizen, you have the right to a trial and due process by law.”

Hey ‘Nam’, were you out protesting President Marxist’s declaration that he can unilaterally order the murder of Americans anywhere in the world? Where was the Progressive Liberal left on that one? If anyone is upset about killing Dorner AFTER he was out killing others, they had better be out protesting in the streets about Barry’s Murder List. But somehow I doubt that.

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Elena2010
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 11:39pm
Foolish man — took his own life after stealing 4 others. If he had a beef w/being fired, why did he not turn to the civil courts for remedy. THAT is the American way and our right to redress our grievances in a civilized manner.

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- The Big Mick
  Posted on February 17, 2013 at 12:34am
  EL, in exactly WHAT civilized way did The Police redress THEIR grievances with HIM? They HUNTED him to KILL him, it is hard to see their actions in any other light than a GROUP VENDETTA for VENGENCE! It is hard to believe they ever INTENDED to take him into custody to “redress grievances” and seek justice in court. If a group of US had done it WITH the same attitude THEY would ARREST US!
  The PROBLEM here is that the actions and attitude of The Police ARE ON A LEVEL WITH DOORNOBS! THAT is UNACCEPTABLE!
  Sure Doornob didn’t intend to be taken into custody, sure he “declared war” on the Police, THAT’s the POINT–THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED to respond in kind, and yet they DID!
  THAT is what they MUST be held ACCOUNTABLE for.
  
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Rayblue
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 11:39pm
Out I say.
There’s the smell of blood still: All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
Foul whisperings are abroad; Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.

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- The Big Mick
  Posted on February 17, 2013 at 12:37am
  oooooh 100 points on the Big Mick “Name that Classic Allusion” Scoring List for the McBeth allusion!
  Usually I only give 50, but that’s a CLASSIC Classic.
  
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Case_Logic
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 11:37pm
This is obama’s voting group, this is who he can count on to buy his BS and get out the vote (2 or 3x).

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fastgen1
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 11:37pm
We demand the names of the thugs that shot the two ladies in the blue pickup truck. How about some honesty there…..

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GoodStuff
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 11:32pm
Kook Paulbots…no more no less.

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on February 17, 2013 at 6:44am
  i highly doubt that. get over your fear
  
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- dissentnow
  Posted on February 17, 2013 at 7:31am
  @SOY
  
  Goodstuff posts the same “Paulbot” crap on every story involving Dorner. The fact that he uses the deaths of 4 innocent people at the hands of this cold-blooded killer to make a cheap political statement speaks volumes for his character, or lack thereof.
  
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pwatkins
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 11:25pm
His name has been officially cleared….God removed it from the Book of Life. No more Christopher Dorner…all clear now….go home protesters.

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GB__The Holy Warmonger
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 11:19pm
Based on MEDIA reports this guy got what he deserved but when did so many here start trusting the media without question?

And the police; did the end justify their means? How many peoples rights were violated in the process?

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- The Big Mick
  Posted on February 17, 2013 at 12:40am
  Exactly HW, but brace for impact, the trend of the thread is to place a false “either or” on this and make holding the police accountable morally equal to excusing Doornob.
  
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harryset
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 11:14pm
It’s time for someone to point out the similarities between him and Timothy McVeigh (sp), and how they one is treated as a terrorist and the other a hero.

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- The Big Mick
  Posted on February 17, 2013 at 12:44am
  Oh Harry, I hadn’t thought of that. THAT requires some cogitation. Yes, both were going after Government Authority they viewed as Out of Control and having wronged them. It diverges from there, but that part is similar.
  And yes, McVeigh–”white”–Evil “Dometic Terrorist”. Doornob “black” Crusader for Racial Justice, a 21st Century “D’Jingger”.
  But I must also cogitate on the equal Truth that the POLICE regarded them BOTH with Hatred and Vengence for having attacked “their own.” THAT continues to trouble.
  
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Carlinpa
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 11:02pm
Clear his name? yeah sure , right after, Adolf Hitler, Charles mansion, Jeffrey Dahmer, Adam Lanze, and the Boston Strangler.

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godhatesacoward
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 10:58pm
“I really, really believe he was innocent in the firing case,” Alaniz said of Dorner

Ok. So f’n what! Does that give him the right to execute four innocent people?

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SamIamTwo
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 10:58pm
The murder got what he wanted. And pretty sure he, like all of the other cowards, ended up killing himself in the end…cause he could not take what would come next…murdering coward.

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Leveraction3030
Posted on February 16, 2013 at 10:56pm
Lets review.
1. Californification is Liberal La La Land.
2. Guy goes nuts with multiple firearms and murders four people in La La Land, CA.
3. Liberals in La La Land, CA hate guns and the people that own them.
4. Liberal La La Land, CA cops kill murderer for murdering four La La Land, CA people.
5. La La LandCa, Liberals now protest to clear the killers name.
After review we now know that entire state of La La Land, CA is completely insane.

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