Wow, that’s really dicked up…kinda reminds me of the suicidal census taker.
At least the L.A. cop ain’t racist, since he described his faux assailant as a white, middle-aged guy. And the city spent several million dollars searching for this alleged dangerous criminal, holding the city in fear for more than a week (not as bad as the Beltway Sniper, but close) before Sgt. Stenroos finally fessed up.
The media hasn’t reported anything new about why he did it, but it’s been kind of a full news day with the Egyptian riots and the fact that it’s currently raining cats & dogs in L.A. (always a headline-grabber in this town…yeesh!)
I don’t get the impression that he did fess up- more that the LAPD figured it out. I doubt it would have taken them long to figure out that the bullet was fired from his sidearm.
I bet off duty he was doing something a la Jackass and he let someone shoot him in the chest while wearing the vest. He didn’t realize that the vest would be ruined and the damage would be noticed. So to cover up damaging the equipment, he made up the story.