[Half Vast Conspiracy]

LAPD Police Chief Charlie Beck attributed the misunderstandings to the “incredible tension” felt during the manhunt for ex-cop and cop killer Christopher Dorner.

So, the only way to protect yourself is to hide during this kind of manhunt.

[RetiredTexasVet]

“a reasonable mistake.”

That should be qualified: “A reasonable mistake ... as defined by the mentally deficient LAPD Police Chief Charlie Beck”.

[Gene Eric]

No pensions, no bennies, no immunity, no unions, 130+ IQ, 4 years of college including criminal/constitutional studies. Triple the pay. And poof... majority of problems go away.

[gaijin]

Boston west, basically.

And in Boston as they rolled down the city streets, then under Martial Law, they were screaming, “Don’t look out your windows..!” over and over, hundreds of times.

They construed LOOKING AT THEM as a hostile act.

[TurboZamboni]

Apparently better at aiming a car than a gun.

Perdue is lucky he doesn’t look like a dog.

[driftdiver]

incredible panic

[henkster]

In dealing with the government, the following rules apply:

You screw up, you pay
The government screws up, you pay
You lie to the government, you go to jail
The government lies to you, everyday, all the time.

[Bryanw92]

The claims that “cops get their blood up” during a hunt for a cop-killer is roughly the same excuse that looters use during a power outage. It’s for the exact same reason: an excuse to cut loose and run wild.

[Hieronymus]

The only thing that I wouldn’t believe would be the cops getting away with shooting Democratic elected officials.

[kingattax]

you can’t expect perfection from storm troopers whose specialty is killing dangerous cocker spaniels.

[AlexW]

I noticed back in the 90s that American cops were morphing into jack-booted thugs.

[First_Salute]

The above photo has been Photoshopped by somebody for the police department and for press release, in order to SMUDGE and MAKE LESS VISIBLE:

all the bullet holes in the right side of that truck's window.

An earlier version of that photo, *not* Photoshopped:

You can actually see in the un-re-touched, second photograph, that it's easier to observe THE POLICE OFFICERS CARE-LESS-NESS AND CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE AS THEY TRIED TO KILL EVERYBODY IN THAT TRUCK!

The police were not just trying to kill Dorner, the perp, rather, the police were gunning to shoot almost anybody!

The police involved, should be dismissed without pay, no benefits, and charged with ATTEMPTED MURDER.

[Chode]

only the delusional would expect charges filed... it is now truly, them vs us

[GeronL]

There was a story yesterday from Ohio where a cop watched hard core porn with a “pre-teen” and masturbated with him.

The Prosecutor said “No crime”

[dragnet2]

Cops went into full hysteria during the Christopher Dorner incident...No joke..

They were ready to shoot anyone and anything that even remotely resembled him or his vehicle...In fact they went after targets that didn’t even remotely resemble the suspect or his vehicle..

One shoots and they all started shooting...Just hearing shooting over the radio and others started shooting anything that moved.

When they were the target it was most interesting and rather disturbing how they they reacted...

[centurion316]

I’m sure that many thought that the extermination of the Jews was “a reasonable mistake”.

[SkyDancer]

They obviously are graduates of the Fullerton Police Academy.

[LouAvul]

Again, that 60s song, “Pigs”, comes to mind. It closes, “If you’re big, strong and stupid, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department wants you.”

[driftdiver]

oh cmon its not like they are going to intentionally burn someone to death.

[GBA]

In pursuit of a dangerous black male killer, Los Angeles Police Department officers mistook two Latina woman for the suspect and fired one hundred shots.

A quick glance at the calendar tells me we should be beyond the "Well...y'all look alike to me" excuse by now, even in LA.

Guess not.

[sport]

Why not? they got away with it in the Dorner incident. They not only got away with it, they had their defenders on this forum.