Police may have violated due process protections in burning to death Christopher Dorner, ex-LAPD whistleblower turned alleged assassin. Shortly after police told media to pull news choppers away from the scene for safety reasons, the police began a systematic process of torching the cabin. Dorner’s charred remains were reportedly found in the burnt out cabin. But the media was able to pierce the police dragnet’s veil of silence and piece together what happened.
Police scanner activity emerged Wednesday revealing that an officer ordered colleagues to “burn it [the cabin] down.” “We’re gonna go forward with the plan, with the burn,” another voice exclaimed, reports the Telegraph and Mercury News.
An officer was then heard saying: “Seven burners deployed and we have a fire. We have fire in the front. He might come out the back.”
The term “burners” refers to incendiary tear gas canisters, the kind which was used to flash burn down a Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas in 1993. The Waco siege resulted in the senseless burning deaths of seventy-six men, women and children, including sect leader David Koresh. As in the Waco siege, the police penetrated the walls of the cabin Dorner was in — to evenly distribute the gas — before igniting a incendiary burners to spread the ensuing fire.
A local television station also broadcast what appeared to be an officer at the scene saying: “We’re going to burn him out,” and “Burn that ****** house down!”
Former FBI assistant director Tom Fuentes told CNN: “It’s clear there will have to be some further explanation.” Mr. Fuentes said officers might have set fire to one corner of the building in an attempt to force Dorner out the other side.
DUE PROCESS
While the police and media have repeatedly and definitively announced Dorner’s guilt in murdering four people, he is legally presumed innocent until proven guilty. But with his assassination, if in fact he is dead, no one but the police and Dorner will know the truth. Justice has not been served, and everyone loses.
The public has lost an eyewitness to alleged police corruption with Christopher Dorner’ death. Now, the LAPD is the sole voice dictating the narrative regarding their alleged corruption and Dorner’s alleged murder spree.
The LAPD has lost an opportunity to appear transparent and to clear their name. If they are in fact innocent of Dorner’s allegations of widespread racism and LAPD corruption, they should have welcomed the chance to clear their reputation in a court of law as well as in the court of public opinion.
The LAPD should have welcomed the chance to arrest Dorner, have a jury find him guilty, and send him to a maximum-security prison. Their Waco-styled assassination of Dorner, even if it was in fact suicide by cop, does absolutely nothing to assuage the public’s fear that the LAPD has become a gang of blood-hungry Stasis officers working for a rogue totalitarian regime.
Former LAPD Commissioner Bill Bratton, in an interview with Chris Matthews about Dorner, only affirms the public’s suspicions that the LAPD are Stasi. Self-serving, he diverts attention from LAPD conduct to Dorner’s mental health, focusing instead on whether Dorner was mentally unstable before becoming a cop or became unstable while on duty and in the military. Of course, we will never know Dorner’s mental health because he was killed before he could be questioned.
Dorner was entitled to due process, a hearing in a court of law and a trial by jury before his life was taken, but he got none. Meanwhile, the LAPD’s civil liberties violations in the Dorner takedown will go unquestioned by big media.
The threatened use of drones to capture Dorner will go unquestioned.
Bratton will go on to collect a $300,000 payday as a consultant for London and Oakland, where he will train cops to terrorize citizens like the LAPD does, and his leadership credentials will go unquestioned.
And the public will go on wondering whether we are slipping further into a Stasi police state.
This is well written — I agree completely.
Here’s a few more questions I have:
Why did very bit of evidence end up being burned so completely?
Truck burned to a crisp. Cabin burned to a crisp. Body burned to a
crisp?
All that was left after the inferno they started was the chimney and a readable plastic drivers license? Wouldn’t plastic melt into a puddle in an inferno where numerous canisters of “pyrotechnic” tear gas were used and nothing but rubble was left? Doesn’t make logical sense, right?
And why did they lob “pyrotechnic” tear gas into the cabin? How about knock out gas so they could take him alive?
How come an entire SWAT team force surrounding the cabin and armored police vehicles that could get close enough to tear out all four walls of the cabin wasn’t enough force to take him out alive?
Why were so many pieces of his identification strewn in so many places?
What was the reason behind the Million Dollar reward?
Why was Dorner the subject of the largest man-hunt in history? Other criminals have done as much or far more than Dorner and didn’t receive half the attention, so why were such extraordinary means used to run him to ground?
Did he write that “manifesto?” All of it? Or part of it? Or none of it?
Was Dorner framed by the LAPD from the very beginning? The chief’s daughter and son were murdered, but how do we know Dorner murdered them? We don’t.
Was that murder used to frame a man the LAPD wanted to take down? After all, without him alive to stand trial we are expected to believe everything the LAPD says, yet we know they’re corrupt and untrustworthy and have been for many decades.
The only thing that seems transparently obvious: Dorner posed a threat to the LAPD’s boys in blue and they didn’t want to give him the chance to speak publicly about it, so they brutally murdered him.
All excellent questions. Big media derides “conspiracy theorists,” but some questions must be answered — and transparency must prevail — if America is to remain a country of free citizens governed by a common rule of law.
you’re using stasi wrong. The stasi were the intelligence of the Romanian Securitate.
The US is now an authoritarian state with hyper militarized, undertrained and unaccountable police forces. (much like our government, I guess they feel they need the Iron guard to protect them and their crony kleptocrats from the public.
The Ministry for State Security (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, MfS), commonly known as the Stasi. (abbreviation German: Staatssicherheit, literally State Security), was the official state security service of the German Democratic Republic or GDR (informally known as East Germany). It has been described as one of the most effective and repressive intelligence and secret police agencies in the world.
A special unit of the Stasi assisted Romanian intelligence in kidnapping Romanian dissident Oliviu Beldeanu from West Germany.
I’m talking about using repressive tactics on Americans.
Would you prefer I’d use the term Waffen-SS? In the end, it makes little difference. The Constitution is ignored, civil liberties infringed, dead and disappeared people worldwide.
I am using Stasi the way I intended, to reflect the repressive nature of the police force. As for Stasi referring to Romanian police, I disagree. The Ministry for State Security (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, MfS), is commonly known as the Stasi. (abbreviation German: Staatssicherheit, literally State Security), and was the official state security service of the German Democratic Republic or GDR (informally known as East Germany).
It has been described as one of the most effective and repressive intelligence and secret police agencies in the world.
A special unit of the Stasi assisted Romanian intelligence in kidnapping Romanian
dissident Oliviu Beldeanu from West Germany.
Would you prefer I’d use the term Waffen-SS? In the end, it makes little difference.
The Constitution is ignored and civil liberties infringed
All excellent questions. Big media derides “conspiracy theorists,” but some questions must be answered — and transparency must prevail — if America is to remain a country of free citizens governed by a common rule of law.
This is a fanstastic article on the erosion of our courts system and civil liberties. Wake up Americans.