LA Police fire 46+ rounds at two newspaper carriers (in the back), saying they thought it was Donner

[CreekDog]

"The problem with the situation is it looked like the police had the goal of administering street justice and in so doing, didn't take the time to notice that these two older, small Latina women don't look like a large black man," Jonas said.

Dorner manhunt: Lawyer calls shootings of paper carriers 'unacceptable'
February 8, 2013 | 5:58 am

An attorney representing two women who were delivering newspapers when they were shot by police during a massive manhunt for an ex-LAPD officer called the incident "unacceptable," saying his clients looked nothing like the suspect.

Emma Hernandez, 71, was delivering the Los Angeles Times with her daughter, Margie Carranza, 47, in the 19500 block of Redbeam Avenue in Torrance on Thursday morning when Los Angeles police detectives apparently mistook their pickup for that of Christopher Dorner, the 33-year-old fugitive suspected of killing three people and injuring two others.
Hernandez, who attorney Glen T. Jonas said was shot twice in the back, was in stable condition late Thursday. Carranza received stitches on her finger.

"The problem with the situation is it looked like the police had the goal of administering street justice and in so doing, didn't take the time to notice that these two older, small Latina women don't look like a large black man," Jonas said.

Officials seeking Dorner describe him as black, 6 feet tall and weighing 270 pounds.
"We trust that the LAPD will step up and do the right thing and acknowledge that what they did was unacceptable, and we'll deal with it," Jonas said.

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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/02/dorner-manhunt-shootings-newspaper-carriers.html

[lonestarnot]

1. WTF again this am!

[Junkdrawer]

2. Due Process is soooo 20th century......

In the Age of Terror, we have no time for such nonsense....

[Bonobo]

3. Frankly shooting an innocent 6 foot tall black man would be no more excusable. nt

[coalition_unwilling]

9. The LAPD and other regional LEAs pull that type of shit routinely here with nary

a word from the various media whores.

[msanthrope]

4. The payout they deserve will ensure they never have to deliver another fucking newspaper again. nt

[HereSince1628]

6. I'm just old fashioned, but when police go into 'shoot to kill on sight' I expect them to

put a curfew in place so that the innocent don't wander into a death trap.

I suppose in this day and age, fear eliminates the possibility of such consideration being afforded to the public.

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. Police agencies must be included in the gun control agenda! Someone disarm them please!

[Blue_Tires]

8. The more you read about these incidents, the more you wonder

if Dorner didn't have a pretty strong point in his manifesto...

[coalition_unwilling]

10. If you were all tweaked out and amped up on the speed and meth you

had confiscated from other street gangs, you too might confuse two Latinas for one large black man.

in case it's needed.

[L0oniX]

11. 46+ rounds? Holy gun nuts Batman! ...and they missed the target??? n/t

[winstars]

12. That's what I said, try some marksmanship classes...

[CreekDog]

15. No they hit both targets and put one into ICU

You couldnt have read the article or even the OP's title withiut reading that the hit the women.

If you want to make a useful comment...

[L0oniX]

16. You could try reading your own op too...

"saying they thought it was Donner"

[L0oniX]

18. How about discussing the incompetent LEO's who may have hit other innocent people? n/t

[coalition_unwilling]

19. Would that be the Donner Party v 2.0? - :) - n/t

[L0oniX]

22. ...

[kestrel91316]

29. No, they HIT their targets. The elderly woman took 2 rounds in the back and is in ICU.

The other woman took a bullet in the hand.

[Exultant Democracy]

13. Responsible gun owners trained in the operation of their firearms. Goooo Guns!

[markbark]

14. There are three major gangs in LA:

The Crips
The Bloods
and the LAPD

[coalition_unwilling]

20. How dare you besmirch the reps of the Boys in Blue? Everyone who's anyone knows that

they're simply the enforcers for the real estate developers Philip Anschutz and Eli Broad.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

21. Kinda like confusing 2 chipmunks for a charging rhino.

[frylock]

23. fuck tha police

[woo me with science]

24. K&R

[Cali_Democrat]

25. This criminal shooting by the LAPD is only confirming what Dorner has been saying about them

[Dawson Leery]

26. These types of acts give much credibility to Donner's claims.

[Lint Head]

27. They do not want to capture him alive. Something is up with this.

[coalition_unwilling]

31. Hello. The father of the arrestee testified at the BOR hearing that

his son had told him that Evans (Dorner's supervising officer) had kicked the son (the arrestee) in the face when making the arrest. And they still determined in their secret star chamber proceeding that Dorner had lied??? Give me a fucking break. The Superior Court that heard Dorner's appeal said it could not determine whether Evans had kicked the arrestee in the head or not.

Even the media whores last night on TV were saying that Dorner might have a legitimate grievance, after they had reviewed the legal filings. That's a switch from their oh-so-usual fellating of all things LAPD-related.

[Bennyboy]

28. The ENTIRE country of Germany's police forces used 84 bullets

in 2011. 84. half were warning shots.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/117238313

[HooptieWagon]

30. Damn, were do I begin?

Those cops should be fired, pronto. First, wouldn't a simple tag check have revealed it wasn't the person they were looking for? Second, could they not stop the vehicle before shooting? Couldn't they call for backup? Do two latinas really look like one large black man? Those cops sound like trigger-happy morons.

[rightsideout]

32. They were lucky

A drone could have taken them out.