02-05-2014, 10:48 AM
^^^ The pressure that police were under to stop Dorner before he killed more people - as he'd threatened to do just hours before - was intense. No doubt about it.
BUT, I agree with Chief Beck and am glad the LAPD didn't stop at just paying off the victims and then try to sweep the wrongful shootings under the rug.
Officers shooting 100 times at two women in a blue truck because the officers were on high alert and thought it was one man in a gray truck (of a different make/model, no less)? No policy should enable such a dangerous lack of judgment and skill by any officers, any where, IMO. The eight officers are so damned lucky that neither of the women died.
Chief Beck will meet Tuesday with the Police Commission, which oversees the LAPD and has the final word on police shootings, to share his finding. The commission will then vote on whether it agrees the officers violated LAPD policy.
It will then be up to Beck to decide how to discipline the officers, if at all.
BUT, I agree with Chief Beck and am glad the LAPD didn't stop at just paying off the victims and then try to sweep the wrongful shootings under the rug.
Officers shooting 100 times at two women in a blue truck because the officers were on high alert and thought it was one man in a gray truck (of a different make/model, no less)? No policy should enable such a dangerous lack of judgment and skill by any officers, any where, IMO. The eight officers are so damned lucky that neither of the women died.
Chief Beck will meet Tuesday with the Police Commission, which oversees the LAPD and has the final word on police shootings, to share his finding. The commission will then vote on whether it agrees the officers violated LAPD policy.
It will then be up to Beck to decide how to discipline the officers, if at all.