LOS ANGELES (AP) — A fired police officer who threatened to bring ‘‘warfare’’ to the Los Angeles Police Department went on a shooting rampage that left a policeman and two others dead and set off an extraordinary manhunt Thursday that put Southern California on edge, led hair-trigger officers to mistakenly shoot innocent citizens and forced police to guard their own.
The search for Christopher Dorner had three states and Mexico on alert before shifting Thursday afternoon to the snowy mountains around Big Bear Lake, about 80 miles east of Los Angeles, where police found his burned-out pickup truck.
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What stands out here is the shooting of innocent people in the seemingly, somewhat crazed hunt for this guy; Apparently, one of their own going off the deep end results in civilian deaths in an overly aggresive response. I would guess this is exactly the reaction he was hoping for. A sorry situation and one that might have been avoided if this person's obvious personality disorders were exposed much earlier.