Huge Search for Ex-Officer in 3 California Killings

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Fine then. 

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Well if you find yourself there by accident, definitely stay away from abandoned psych hospitals.

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Wonder what happened to this dude:

Speaking of accidental discharges, just this morning:

This is from 2 years ago, but the Portland Police do pretty well too.  An officer "accidentally" fired lethal rounds from their non-lethal beanbag shotgun.

http://www.kgw.com/news/Officer-involved-shooting-in-Portland-124794169.html

PORTLAND -- Portland police announced late Thursday afternoon that an officer had mistakenly fired lethal shotgun rounds at a suspect instead of the intended, less-lethal beanbag rounds earlier in the day.

A man was taken to Oregon Health & Sciences University with pellet wounds to the hip. He was expected to survive.

The shooting was in the 3600 block of Southwest Barbur Boulevard. There was a massive response that included dozens of officers, detectives, lawyers, police union reps, the police chief and even the mayor.

Dispatchers said the first 9-1-1 call came in around 9:55 a.m. about an intoxicated man harassing children at a summer camp in Lair Hill Park. Other calls said the man had a knife concealed up a sleeve, and that he had left the park.

Officers encountered a man several blocks away at Naito and Curry and one officer fired what was thought to be beanbag rounds.

"The Police Bureau began carrying less lethal beanbag shotguns in the mid-1990s," bureau spokesman Lt. Robert King said in a prepared statement. "An incident like this has never occurred prior to today. Training protocols require the officers who are certified in this weapon to visually inspect each round. Lethal rounds are red and blue and less lethal rounds are yellow and clear in color. Officers are required to also do a safety check and load the weapon at the beginning of their shift."

The shooting drew both Chief Michael Reese and Mayor Sam Adams to the scene, as well as, for the first time, a representative of the city's Independent Police Review Division, part of a revised ordinance on officer-involved shootings.

"We are just at the beginning stages of this investigation," Chief Michael Reese said in the same prepared statement "Our training protocols are designed to prevent this from happening. I have instructed supervisors to immediately remind every less lethal beanbag shotgun operator to visually inspect each round as they are loaded into the weapon and review less lethal beanbag shotgun training protocols."

The officer who fired the rounds is a 15-year bureau veteran and was placed on paid administrative leave. He was not identified by the bureau.
On Friday, the Portland Police Association union issued a statement that read "We stand in support of Officer Reister as he goes through this difficult process in regards to yesterday's incident. As the PPA, we look forward to a positive resolutioni to this unfortunate occurence."

Police declined further comment but King said more would coming Friday.

Dan Handelman of activist group Portland Cop Watch called the error "absolutely horrifying." Even though this was the only mistake since 1995, he said it's one time too many.

The bureau uses two types of shotguns, one with a stock that's colorized to show it's for beanbag use. Handelman thinks police should have a shotgun that shoots only beanbag rounds, in a different size from lethal rounds used in a regular shotgun.

Detectives spent all afternoon collecting evidence at the scene and interviewing several witnesses.

"You know, (it sounded like) bam, bam, bam. It didn't sound like fireworks, thinking back at it," witness Michael Irvine told KGW.

In 2008, Reister was videotaped while interviewing some men on the street. He took the camera and cited the person shooting the video for illegally taping him. According to a story in the Oregonian, the district attorney's office declined to prosecute the case.

Here is the videotape:

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San Bernardino County sheriff's officials have positively identified the charred remains found in a mountain cabin Tuesday as being the body of Christopher Dorner.

Officials said they made the identification using dental records during the autopsy.

The announcement brings a formal end to the epic manhunt for Dorner, who was accused of killing four people, including two law enforcement officers. He was killed at the end of a hours-long standoff in a cabin near Big Bear on Tuesday afternoon.

SWAT officers in the cabin standoff decided to use highly flammable "hot gas" canisters as a last resort after other efforts to persuade Dorner to surrender failed, according to law enforcement sources.

Officers made the decision to use the canisters, which caused the cabin to catch fire, as the sun was setting Tuesday and authorities worried about dealing with Dorner at night in the remote Big Bear area, said the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing. Dorner had continued to fire on officers, and they feared more deputies would be hurt or killed, they added.

Authorities had chased Dorner into the cabin on Seven Oaks Road on Tuesday afternoon amid a massive gun battle in which one San Bernardino County deputy was killed and another seriously wounded.

Law enforcement officers lobbed conventional tear gas into the cabin, but when Dorner failed to emerge they used CS gas canisters, a more intense weapon known to start fires, and sent in a demolition vehicle. Dorner is believe to have died inside, though it is unclear if the fire caused his death.

San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said deputies did not purposely burn down the cabin. He said they deployed the CS canisters after they were left with no other options.

"I can tell you it was not on purpose," he said. "We did not intentionally burn down that cabin to get Mr. Dorner out."

McMahon praised the deputies involved in the standoff. "It was like a war zone, and our deputies continued to go in the area .... Our deputies are true heroes."

Dorner, an ex-LAPD officer embittered by his firing in 2009, killed the daughter of a retired LAPD captain, her fiance and two law officers during a nine-day rampage that began in Irvine, police say.

In Riverside on Wednesday, police motorcycles led a lengthy procession toward a service for Michael Crain, the slain Riverside officer.

Mary Ann Taylor, who lives down the street from the Grove Community Church where the service was held, stood with her twin granddaughters and watched as police cars filed past with flashing lights.

"Put your hands over your hearts. Show some respect for them," Taylor told the girls, adding: "I think all of us feel the sadness of the last few days."

Big Bear Lake Mayor Jay Obernolte said he was relieved that the manhunt was over. The area was "freed of the sense of being a community that is not safe because there is a cop-killer hiding in our little mountain town."

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This is from 2 years ago, but the Portland Police do pretty well too.

Yeah, good ol' "hipster Portland" has some pretty non-hipstery cops.

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UPDATE: Taylor Swift Back Together With Ex-Boyfriend Christopher Dorner

BIG BEAR LAKE, CA—Just hours after she was left broken-hearted by the death of boyfriend Christopher Dorner, sources reported that Taylor Swift rekindled her romance with the deceased California cop killer Wednesday and has been inseparable from his charred remains ever since. "Taylor was absolutely crushed when her beau barricaded himself in a remote cabin and committed suicide, but after some intense soul-searching, she realized she couldn't live without him," Popsugar.com blogger Kristen Stern said of the rekindled romance between the 23-year-old singer-songwriter and the deceased subject of the LAPD's largest-ever manhunt. "Now the Swifner romance is back on! Fans caught the country cupcake canoodling with Christopher's burnt corpse at a San Bernardino County coroner's office this afternoon, and friends say she's planning a special Valentine's Day surprise for her man. She's definitely smitten." At press time, paparazzi photographed the couple cozying up together inside Dorner's body bag.

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LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles residents are reportedly on edge today following reports that hundreds of armed and extremely dangerous Los Angeles Police Department officers are resuming regular patrolling duties after the conclusion of Tuesday's manhunt for rogue ex-cop Christopher Dorner. "I mean, just knowing they're out there is terrifying—how can I feel safe when these maniacs are on the loose in my neighborhood?" said a visibly rattled Ashley Stillson, 38, who explained that she strictly observed the city's advisory to avoid the historically violent, unpredictable predators by going out in groups and avoiding the streets entirely after nightfall. "These guys are volatile and, in many cases, mentally unstable. Something needs to be done about them because I fear for my family knowing these sick people are still at large." At press time, sources reported the tense mood in L.A. had brightened considerably after news of a serial rapist diverted numerous LAPD officers to a sprawling manhunt in nearby San Bernardino.

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Y'all trying to make us People's Daily?