I am really suspicious of that manifesto.
While he was raised in LA, he went to college at Southern Utah University, aka “BYU South”, an ultraconservative school of mostly Mormons, with mandatory prayer and signed student pledges against drinking liquor. Located in a very rural area where there is no fun to be had.
He majored in Political Science, and minored in Psychology, and graduated.
Then in the Navy, he was in units not particularly known for their liberal views. Underwater port security, where if they aren’t supposed to be there, you kill them; and Riverine operations, aka “gunboats”, most likely in Iraq, people who also get shot at and shoot back a lot.
Then he went to the hyperliberal and corrupt LAPD, where he got into trouble, first for thumping a neo-Nazi in the police academy, and then for reporting another officer for stomping a schizophrenic with severe dementia.
Why does he not sound very liberal to me? But as a psychology student, he would know that whatever he wrote would be deeply embarrassing to whoever he mentioned, and that dumbass liberals would embrace it anyway, which the public would note.
I agree with you. Its like this guy picked every current hot topic button of the left and has garnered support out of thin air where none fully existed before.
Maybe he was under the mistaken opinion that cops and police department are actually honest and became psycho when he realized they were corrupt.
That said, it’s no excuse for murdering innocent people.
With this shooting over a custody dispute, I’d sure like the know the details of the dispute. Generally it’s the man who gets screwed over in a divorce.