What if LA Police kill more than Dorner has?
What if the L.A. Police end up killing more people by the end of this search than Chris Dorner has? I want to make clear that this is simply a hypothetical question…at this point. However, today, for the third time, Southern California police have opened fire on an innocent victim–without warning–in their efforts to capture Chris Dorner.
In the first incident, LAPD officers opened fire on two women in another pickup they thought was being driven by Dorner. The mother and daughter inside the truck were delivering newspapers. The older woman was shot twice in the back and the other was wounded by broken glass.
The third victim is David Perdue, on his way to catch some waves on Thursday morning when, according to his lawyer, a Torrance, Calif. police cruiser “slammed into his pickup and officers opened fire,” reports the Los Angeles Times.
The bullets missed Perdue, but his attorney, Robert Sheahen, said his client suffered a concussion and hurt his shoulder, making it temporarily impossible for him to work at his job as a baggage handler at LAX. Perdue’s car was also totaled, Sheahen told the Times.
The Torrance Police Department said the incident was a case of mistaken identity. Officers thought Perdue’s truck was Dorner’s pickup.
Miraculously, so far, no one has been killed in these mistaken identity shootings.
What if these reckless shootings continue and escalate? What if the police end up killing more people than Dorner has? Does there come a point at which the people should rise up and disband an established statist police force that has become corrupt beyond salvaging and establish a new private security force? Yep, we better have gun control so we don’t have to worry about such questions…