[Vision2020] We live in interesting times.......

[Tom Hansen]

I suspect that we haven't heard the last about the police officers.

Although I suspect that we haven't read everything there is to know about this incident, coupled with Police Chief Beck's comments, it will be extremely difficult (if not impossible) for those officers to convince a shooting board that the shootings were justified and in line of duty.  Then there's the public pressure thing.

They are certainly not the caliber of police officer I would want wandering the hallways keeping our elementary school campuses safe.

With all that said, I still think . . .

"It's Gonna Rain Today"
http://www.tomandrodna.com/songs/Gonna_Rain_Today.mp3
 
Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares"
http://www.MoscowCares.com
  
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"There's room at the top they are telling you still 
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill 
If you want to be like the folks on the hill."

- John Lennon
 

On Feb 8, 2013, at 7:26 PM, Art Deco <art.deco.studios at gmail.com> wrote:

> Aside from the horrible, senseless, and avoidable tragedy, the officers involved would not make good hunting companions.
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> Aren't you supposed to know what you are shooting at before you discharge that lethal missile?  Aren't LE personnel especially trained about this rule?
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> And LE officers wonder why there is less and less trust of them by the public?
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> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> This whole story reads like a B movie script.  Dorner threw away any "fighting for justice" points with me the second he killed those two civilians.  Assuming he actually killed them, I guess.  If he didn't, I could at least understand him: the lone hero fighting endemic police corruption.  It's still murder, but at least it would make sense.  This just sounds like one long bout of retribution, not justice.  Assuming he did kill those civilians, I hope they bring him in swiftly.
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>> It might also be nice if the LAPD could man up on this one and stop shooting at shadows.
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>> Paul
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>> From: Wayne Price <bear at moscow.com>
>> To: "vision2020 at moscow.com 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com> 
>> Sent: Friday, February 8, 2013 3:55 PM
>> Subject: [Vision2020] We live in interesting times.......
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>> I wonder if the LAPD officers who gunned down a 71 year old hispanic woman and her 47 year old daughter will be charged with attempted murder?
>> Notice that immediately the Chief of the LAPD said it was a case of mistaken identity!
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>> Lets see:  2 petite hispanic women vs 1 large black man is a mistake? A blue pick up truck vs a gray pick up truck with a ski rack is a mistake?
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>> Newspaper carrier, 71, shot by LAPD in manhunt had 'no warning'
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>> By Yukio Strachan
>> Torrance - A 71-year-old woman delivering newspapers with her daughter who were "accidentally" shot by LAPD searching for triple murder fugitive Christopher Dorner Thursday said they had no warning beforehand, the victims’ attorney told local media. Attorney Glen T. Jonas said Maggie Carranza, 47, and her mother, 71-year-old Emma Hernandez, were delivering Los Angeles Times newspapers around 5:15 a.m. in Torrance when the officers riddled the women's blue pickup with bullets.
>> “There was no warning. There were no orders. No commands. Just gunshots,” Jonas said.
>> A patrol unit was reportedly assigned to protect the home of a high-ranking LAPD officer during the manhunt for 33-year-old Dorner, who is believed to have killed a Riverside cop Thursday and an Irvine couple Sunday.
>> In a news conference, Police Chief Charlie Beck said the officers thought the women’s royal blue Toyota Tacoma matched the description of Dorner’s gray Nissan Titan with ski rack.
>> Jonas said the women's vehicle was "the wrong color and the wrong model" compared to Dorner's."The problem with the situation is it looked like the police had the goal of administering street justice and in so doing, didn't take the time to notice that these two older, small Latina women don't look like a large black man," Jonas said, correcting earlier news reports that the women were Asian.
>> Dorner is black, 6 feet tall and weighs 270 pounds.
>> "Tragically, we believe this is a case of mistaken identity," Charlie Beck, chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, told reporters earlier Thursday about the shooting.Jonas told CBS Los Angeles that he's not buying it.
>> “The vehicle is a different color. The license plate doesn’t match. There’s nothing there for you to start shooting people. And even if they had the person in question… Mr. Dorner…you still have to give them an opportunity to get out. You can’t just start administering street justice,” said Jonas.The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday night that 71-year-old Hernandez, who was shot twice in the back, is in intensive care.CBS added Hernandez was listed in good condition at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.Her daughter, Carranza, who was also hit, according to attorney Jonas, received stitches to a finger."We trust that the LAPD will step up and do the right thing and acknowledge that what they did was unacceptable and we'll deal with it," Jonas said
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