# Fired LAPD Cop On a Murderous Rampage in SoCal **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 8, 2013, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fired-lapd-cop-on-a-murderous-rampage-in-socal/649674 "2013-02-08T03:16:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fired-lapd-cop-on-a-murderous-rampage-in-socal/649674/101 "2013-02-10T01:18:52Z")
> [@Pedro](#): > > Maybe while rightfully convicting him for his crimes we should also reflect on what brought on that inner crisis. Reading his manifesto I believe at some point Dorner represented what the LAPD should stand for. Yeah. Say the “N” word and get shot by a co-worker. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fired-lapd-cop-on-a-murderous-rampage-in-socal/649674/102 "2013-02-10T01:32:46Z")
> [@Honesty](#): > > It’s terrible a thing, unfortunate and [unprecedented](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BART_Police_shooting_of_Oscar_Grant). Whatever happened to that policeman? He should be in prison, just as your Batman should. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fired-lapd-cop-on-a-murderous-rampage-in-socal/649674/103 "2013-02-10T01:40:18Z")
Dorner has been dangerous for a long time. Even before getting fired from the LAPD. The ex-wife’s warning may have been dismissed as a bitter girlfriend back in 2006. But it’s sounds very much like the crazy guy that just shot people and is threatening to kill more. Sounds like LAPD was smart to get rid of him when they did. Too bad the lady that married him for a month in 2007 didn’t see his [dontdatehimgirl.com](http://dontdatehimgirl.com) profile. Could have saved her some grief. > **['Killer' ex-cop was married for just ONE MONTH and was called 'twisted and...](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2275832/Killer-ex-cop-married-just-ONE-MONTH-called-twisted-super-paranoid-website-ex-warned-date-him.html#axzz2KR8DW7Fa)** > > Christopher Dorner got married in 2007 at a Las Vegas chapel to April Carter, but the union was dissolved within a month. Earlier, an ex girlfriend went to an online message board to warn off others from going out with him. > [@](#): > > ‘This guy is twisted. … He is super paranoid, always thinking that everyone is out to get him,’ the posting said, according to the Orange County Register. > > ‘Anyway be careful because this guy is a police officer. … He will probably think he can get away with anything,’ the post continued. > [@](#): > > The ‘killer’ ex-cop wanted for three murders was married for less than a month and was blasted as ‘twisted and super paranoid’ by a former girlfriend on a website warning other women against dating him, it was revealed today. > > The more complete portrait of Christopher Dorner has emerged as thousands of cops are still searching for him, a ski resort in California was on lockdown and the manhunt spread to two other states and Mexico. > > Dorner, 33, clashed with an ex in 2006 and made claims that she was cyberstalking him by posting damning messages about him on [dontdatehimgirl.com](http://dontdatehimgirl.com). ---
**Author:** ![Pedro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/919ad9/32.png) [@Pedro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pedro)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fired-lapd-cop-on-a-murderous-rampage-in-socal/649674/104 "2013-02-10T01:43:48Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Dorner has been dangerous for a long time. Even before getting fired from the LAPD. > > The ex-wife’s warning may have been dismissed as a bitter girlfriend back in 2006. But it’s sounds very much like the crazy guy that just shot people and is threatening to kill more. > > Sounds like LAPD was smart to get rid of him when they did. > > ['Killer' ex-cop was married for just ONE MONTH and was called 'twisted and super paranoid' on website by an ex who warned others not to date him | Daily Mail Online](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2275832/Killer-ex-cop-married-just-ONE-MONTH-called-twisted-super-paranoid-website-ex-warned-date-him.html#axzz2KR8DW7Fa) I just know a guy is dangerous when the worst they can dig up on him are bitter words from an ex-wife. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fired-lapd-cop-on-a-murderous-rampage-in-socal/649674/105 "2013-02-10T01:47:19Z")
Don’t those words from 2005 sound exactly like the paranoid killer the cops are currently looking for? That warning from 2005 gives me a chill just thinking about how prophetic it is. ---
**Author:** ![Pedro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/919ad9/32.png) [@Pedro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pedro)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fired-lapd-cop-on-a-murderous-rampage-in-socal/649674/106 "2013-02-10T02:03:54Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > Yeah. Say the “N” word and get shot by a co-worker. You could have said that the goals I listed for Dorner could equally well apply to Anders Behring Breivik and instead you go for that? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fired-lapd-cop-on-a-murderous-rampage-in-socal/649674/107 "2013-02-10T02:26:24Z")
> [@Pedro](#): > > I just know a guy is dangerous when the worst they can dig up on him are bitter words from an ex-wife. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fired-lapd-cop-on-a-murderous-rampage-in-socal/649674/108 "2013-02-10T02:53:24Z")
> [@Pedro](#): > > You could have said that the goals I listed for Dorner could equally well apply to Anders Behring Breivik and instead you go for that? His “goals” are to murder people, and he said in his manifesto that he should’ve shot fellow officers for saying n\*\*\*r. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fired-lapd-cop-on-a-murderous-rampage-in-socal/649674/109 "2013-02-10T03:02:45Z")
Whether we condemn Dorner or take his cause under serious consideration, it’s clear that we—as media consumers across the country raptly following every development of the story–are working in concert with him to construct a classic narrative that is entertaining us on the same level and no differently than our movie of the week. Dorner is no doubt aware of this, and is playing it out to maximum effect, and in a way, with our complicity, though we won’t admit it. We did exactly the same thing with Casey Anthony, another movie of the week, and oh how upset we were when the bad guy got away with it, because that never happens in movies. > [@Honesty](#): > > The case file has been[leaked.](http://leaksource.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/christopher-dorner-v-lapd-case-file/) And they’re going to reopen his case precisely for the reasons mentioned above. Dark Knight indeed. The mentally ill who go on shooting sprees are only one slight degree away from us, the audience they play to, as they extract their revenge in the way it always happens in the movies. Who wants more popcorn? ---
**Author:** ![miss\_elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fired-lapd-cop-on-a-murderous-rampage-in-socal/649674/110 "2013-02-10T03:27:14Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > Yeah. Say the “N” word and get shot by a co-worker. I’d kinda like it if racists really lived in fear for their lives. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fired-lapd-cop-on-a-murderous-rampage-in-socal/649674/111 "2013-02-10T03:32:46Z")
_The two women in the truck were cowardly ambushed. They had no opportunity to fight back, no pre-warning._ ---
**Author:** ![the\_O](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@the\_O](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_O)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fired-lapd-cop-on-a-murderous-rampage-in-socal/649674/112 "2013-02-10T03:33:20Z")
> [@miss\_elizabeth](#): > > I’d kinda like it if racists really lived in fear for their lives. /door flies open _kiss_ //the O runs away ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fired-lapd-cop-on-a-murderous-rampage-in-socal/649674/113 "2013-02-10T03:39:13Z")
Man, this thread is getting _weird._ ---
**Author:** ![Pedro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/919ad9/32.png) [@Pedro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pedro)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fired-lapd-cop-on-a-murderous-rampage-in-socal/649674/114 "2013-02-10T04:00:06Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > His “goals” are to murder people, and he said in his manifesto that he should’ve shot fellow officers for saying n\*\*\*r. What a vile thing to say. Regarding your original quip, at some point in time implied that time was before murderous rampages seemed like a smart career choice. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fired-lapd-cop-on-a-murderous-rampage-in-socal/649674/115 "2013-02-10T04:00:30Z")
> [@miss\_elizabeth](#): > > I’d kinda like it if racists really lived in fear for their lives. As would I. No shooting required. Let 'em quiver. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fired-lapd-cop-on-a-murderous-rampage-in-socal/649674/116 "2013-02-10T04:18:36Z")
In related news,[the ladies get a new truck!](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/02/lapd-will-provide-new-truck.html) Basically saying, “Pleasedon’tsueus,pleasedon’tsueus,Pleasedon’tsueus…” ---
**Author:** ![Chief\_Pedant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@Chief\_Pedant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chief_Pedant)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fired-lapd-cop-on-a-murderous-rampage-in-socal/649674/117 "2013-02-10T04:20:25Z")
> [@Pedro](#): > > He’s waging asymmetric warfare. And winning so far. Out of curiosity: “Waging asymmetric warfare and winning” is how you characterize shooting people unawares? How about “shooting people like a coward”? Asymmetric warfare, my ass. There’s nothing “warfare” about executing defenseless people by shooting them when they are not even your opponent. Winning, my ass. Whatever cause this turkey thinks he was promoting is losing, big time. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fired-lapd-cop-on-a-murderous-rampage-in-socal/649674/118 "2013-02-10T04:21:07Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > In related news,[the ladies get a new truck!](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/02/lapd-will-provide-new-truck.html) > > Basically saying, “Pleasedon’tsueus,pleasedon’tsueus,Pleasedon’tsueus…” I hope the women sue the LAPD’s asses off, AND keep the truck. ---
**Author:** ![Chief\_Pedant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@Chief\_Pedant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chief_Pedant)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fired-lapd-cop-on-a-murderous-rampage-in-socal/649674/119 "2013-02-10T04:30:03Z")
> [@Honesty](#): > > The case file has been[leaked.](http://leaksource.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/christopher-dorner-v-lapd-case-file/) Seems he appealed the decision twice so at least he tried (although vainly) to fight his dismissal within the system. Unfortunately, Chris Dorner is the hero LA deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we’ll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he’s not the hero. He’s a silent guardian, watchful protector against corruption, he’s our Dark Knight. This impulsive, murderous, psycho is not the her LA needs, unless they want to continue a path to a two-bit, crime-ridden, developing country where rage and guns, instead of the rule of law, are what create power. We aren’t hunting him because he can take it. We are hunting him for gunning down innocent people in cold blood. This is called “murder.” A system “protected” by random slaughter of innocent people is not protected against corruption. That kind of “protection” is corruption, and were it practiced on a scale of any kind, would destroy society tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fired-lapd-cop-on-a-murderous-rampage-in-socal/649674/120 "2013-02-10T04:36:43Z")
> [@Pedro](#): > > I just know a guy is dangerous when the worst they can dig up on him are bitter words from an ex-wife. Well, that and a double homicide. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fired-lapd-cop-on-a-murderous-rampage-in-socal/649674.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fired-lapd-cop-on-a-murderous-rampage-in-socal/649674.md?page=7)