The Mundanes looked like they might be bad so they must be guilty. Shoot first, make excuses later.  In a Middle East setting this is hailed as a successful “Signature Strike”.

Fugitive Chris Dorner felt he was wronged.  Dorner was separated from his LA cop job without due process, according to him.  Dorner violated the unwritten law.  He told on fellow officers who brutalized innocent until proven guilty suspects.   Dorner: a former military man trained to kill who then attended finishing school majoring in the arrogance and belligerence that all too often is the modern cop.  The LAPD is getting some of its own medicine, on nationwide TV.

The mindless slaughter of innocents for a dubious cause.  How did he develop his justification?   His experience in the military?

It is a wonder this doesn’t happen more often.  But then it does.  It is just that the VICTIMS are not cops.

See here and here.

Had Dorner been employed and his victims Mundanes the cop union would have all over the department.  Read the rest of this entry »