The findings of the reexamination of the firing of former LAPD officer Christopher Dorner are not expected out until later this month, but civil rights attorney Connie Rice told AP reporter, Tami Abdollah, that the report has deemed to the firing of Dorner to be justifiable.
Abdollah, who broke the story late Tuesday afternoon, writes that Rice said that the report found “no basis for allegations of racism and bias that Dorner made in a manifesto vowing revenge on his former colleagues and their families.”
Rice went on to reveal that, according to the report, Dorner had a record of “embellishing stories, misperceiving slights and making bogus complaints against his fellow officers” and was “nearly incomprehensible during the hearing over his firing.” It has been reported earlier, that Dorner made his report of brutality by his training officer belatedly and only after he learned that she was giving him a negative performance review.
While Rice was not part of the re-examination process, she was allowed to review the findings at length.
Here’s a clip from Abdollah’s article:
“The firing was justified and his allegations are completely unfounded,” said Rice, who spent two weeks reviewing the findings. “This guy needed to go. And the question was, even if he needed to go, did the LAPD get rid of him in a way that was illegitimate? And the answer for me was no.”
[BIG SNIP]The roughly 40-page report relied on about 80 documents, including 900 pages of transcripts from the Board of Rights hearing that concluded Dorner lied when he claimed a training officer had brutally kicked a mentally ill man during an arrest. He was fired for making a false report and a Los Angeles Superior Court judge sided with the department during a 2010 appeal.
Dorner is believed to have killed two law enforcement officers and the daughter and fiance of an LAPD officer (who had acted as his lawyer in the proceedings that led to his termination), before being cornered by San Bernardino Sheriff’s Deputies in a mountain cabin where, after a deadly firefight, he is reported to have shot and killed himself while the cabin burned around him.
While Dorner was on the run, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck ordered that the ex-cop’s case be reopened and re-examined. The leaked report is the result of that reexamination.
Representatives from LAPD media relations, who have gotten a zillion calls, say that as far as they know, it’s just in the process being reviewed by such persons as Chief Beck, and other higher-ups, so that the paint may not yet be dry on the thing, so to speak. But it’s clear that they aren’t 100 percent sure either.
I hope LAPD does a factual review of his background and application process. How could a candidate this screwed up, pass a legitimate background and psychological examinations? And then, how in the world did this POS even make it through the LAPD Academy? An HONEST review of those questions need to be answered and provided for the public and to LAPD. Was this piece of work hired and passed because of his race? Did he receive a racial equality pass? If so, everyone in the decision making process needs to be held accountable. We have seen it at levels that reached directly to the (former) Undersheriff and Sheriff within LASD, yet no one has been held accountable. If you don’t this this is the case, look at our track record of termination and substantial discipline over the last five years, it will make you gag.
Does anyone know what a racial equality pass is and how does one go about obtaining one? Do you apply for it and do they hand them out to all races? Do they have racial privilege passes, too? BTW, is Connie Rice the de facto arbiter who validates and approves LAPD investigations? Is that a paid position, or does she just happen to be in the pipeline? How does she get a shot at the review before the chief? Who’s running the shop over there, anyway?
“Leaked Report” the public is being duped into thinking that a review by Connie Rice, who is an LAPD/LA City “Lap-dog” would give an impartial, credibile review! This review set-up is programed to reveal what the department wants you to believe. If, they had a tried and true civil-rights attorney that had litigated against LAPD Discrimination, the results would be different! This [leaked] promotion is nothing more than that, Public Relations for Chief Beck!
Ernie Valdez, former LAPD Officer