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My humble opinions after reading his manifesto.

He is quite literate, indeed college educated.

Although black, he does NOT have anything remotely resembling an entitlement attitude.

If you must buttonhole him, put him down as a former Officer of the Naval Security Force reserves.

It would be a mistake to "define" him as a liberal just from his list of people he likes and dislikes.

I think he is telling the truth about his mistreatment after crossing the thin blue line of the LAPD

He thinks of himself as having Honor, Integrity and Courage. That makes him particularly dangerous.

He is out for revenge now, and in the wickedest ways. He has sworn death to all those who opposed him, and death to their families. The civilian he killed was the daughter of the consul assigned to him by the LAPD.

If I was on his $h@t list I would pick up my family and move to an undisclosed location until this guy was caught.

There is about a 0% chance that he is getting out of this alive if he stays in LA. The LAPD will definitely take this personally.

He's also an example of how people seek to influence politics by violence. He writes "Whether by executive order or thru a bi-partisan congress an assault weapons ban needs to be re-instituted. Period!!!"

So here we have an example of someone who advocates an assault weapons ban who has allegedly engaged in multiple murders. So all the folks saying that recent mass killings might be intended to support legislation against guns aren't as crazy as they may have seemed. We've got an example right in front of us if the "manifesto" is authentic of someone committing murders who has written a manifesto calling for an assault weapons ban.

Who knows if he is the only mass killer with that idea.

swamp40 ~ There is about a 0% chance that he is getting out of this alive if he stays in LA. The LAPD will definitely take this personally.

AppyPappy ~ It doesn’t help when the PD shoots up a truck full of women delivering newspapers because they thought a 300lb black man was driving.

Yep, two 150 lb white women look a lot like like one 300 lb black man...

I had considered the possibility that the guy wrote the pro-AWB and pro-Obama stuff to deflect the blowback that he knew would follow his murderous rampage if people were to finger him as a “right-winger”, but I dismissed that possibility because enough of his ranting appears to be internally consistent with his stated worldview to the point that it is apparently believable on its face.

Absent some contrary evidence from a sufficient number of people who know/knew him personally (who do not appear to have been coached), I will accept it as written as a faithful account of his views.

"It would be a mistake to "define" him as a liberal just from his list of people he likes and dislikes."

Not just because of that. He praised the communistic, anti-American political agendas of those most left-leaning politicians and media people. He said that he committed his mass murders to spread his anti-Second-Amendment message. He's worse than a liberal. As for his fictitious claims about having light combat and strategic abilities, he was a lieutenant in the Navy--not a light combat soldier, Marine or SEAL.

He's a cop. He's a civilian. He's a politically correct socialist.