After yesterday’s standoff between law enforcement and Chris Dorner came to a fiery end, there were many questions that remained unanswered. The one weighing most heavily on the minds of those following the case is whether or not police started the fire that burned alive the man believed to be Chris Dorner. There is evidence […]
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A former African-American LAPD officer named Joe Jones posted his own manifesto on Facebook this morning in response to Chris Dorner, the ex-cop charged with killing three people as part of a vendetta against the LAPD. In an online manifesto posted to Facebook Dorner accused the LAPD of firing him in 2008 in retaliation for […]
UPDATE (Monday, 2/11): Yesterday, the Daily Express, a British news outlet, reported that the LAPD was using drones in its search for ex-cop Chris Dorner. I reported on this, though I also pointed out that it might not be true. Upon further investigation, it turns out there is no evidence to back the Express article. CNN […]
UPDATE (Monday, 2/11): Yesterday, the Daily Express, a British news outlet, reported that the LAPD was using drones in its search for ex-cop Chris Dorner. I reported on this, though I also pointed out that it might not be true. Upon further investigation, it turns out there is no evidence to back the Express article. CNN […]
Below is Christopher Dorner’s manifesto, published by KTLA (they redacted the names of individuals mentioned to protect their privacy). Dorner is a former LAPD officer who was fired in 2009 for making false statements about his training officer. He says he wasn’t lying and has gone on a shooting rampage, targeting those he says wronged him […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dsTHuY2b0bg A man of Native American descent unleashed some much-needed truth on a group of anti-immigrant protesters in Tuscon, Arizona. And lucky for us, it was caught on video and uploaded to Youtube. My favorite part is when he says to a protester holding an anti-immigrant sign, “Yeah, we should’ve put that sign up when […]
An analysis conducted at MIT found that black and Hispanic voters waited almost twice as long to vote in the 2012 election as their white counterparts. The following graph, created by the New York Times, shows that they waited for an average of 20.2 minutes whereas white voters waited an estimated 12.7 minutes. But that’s only […]
Michael Isikoff of NBC News got his hands on a Justice Department white paper that contains the Obama administration’s legal framework for extrajudicial killings of US citizens abroad. The 16-page white paper expands on the rationale put forward by Attorney General Eric Holder last year in a speech at Northwestern University. If you thought that argument […]
While the militarization of domestic law enforcement is nothing new, there’s always surprises to be found in the increasingly combat-ready arsenals of local police departments.
In July of last year, Oakland police officers pointed their guns at a sleeping 3-year-old while delivering a search warrant for a misdemeanor probe. The incident was brought to light in a quarterly report by Robert Warshaw, Independent Monitor for the Oakland Police Department.
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