by JDHURF » Tue Feb 12, 2013 11:28 pm
It seems unlikely that Dorner isn't by now a smoldering corpse within that cabin.
What a crazy event. The stuff of movies.
I read Dorner's manifesto and he seemed like a reasonably intelligent, competent individual who really had(s) a case against the LAPD. I can understand and relate to his anger and frustration. It is just a horrible shame that he couldn't think of any alternative to waging total war against the whole of the LAPD which directly resulted in not only the deaths he caused but also the injuries the amateur LA police caused in their fearful haste to shoot Dorner. It's a shame that innocent people lost their lives and many more lives were thereby shattered. The sheriff's deputy who died clearly cannot be linked to the alleged corrupt LAPD and certainly it cannot be that every police officer in the LAPD was racist and corrupt. It seems likely to me Dorner was at least PTSD. It would be interesting to know what he did in Afghanistan.
If he shot himself in that cabin and had always planned not to be taken alive, he could've just as easily gotten attention and surely more sympathetic attention where he to have simply committed suicide from the beginning with the manifesto as a suicide note rather than killing other people on the way out as well.
What a tragedy.