There is a point at which all cops get lumped together and suffer the same fate because the good ones fail to weed out the bad.
The LAPD have opened fire on two vehicles without provocation since this started and you really have the tenacity to ask us for proof they've collectively gone off the deep end?
Whatever lingering sympathy I may have had left is gone after these incidents. Police are openly shooting civilians with ZERO REPERCUSSIONS. They deserve what they get.
The LAPD failed in yet another opportunity to stand for something good. They should have called out these shootings above everything else.
"We will talk about Mr. Dorner later, but right now we need to make it clear that our officers made unacceptable decisions to fire on those vehicles and the people in them. Everyone involved has been taken off duty without pay and will face the full consequences available under the law. We will hold ourselves to a higher standard. The officers who opened fire will be treated no better than gang members in a drive-by, and if I have any say about it they will be treated more harshly. There are no circumstances where that sort of behavior is tolerable -- not of law enforcement or of anyone else. Our job is to protect and serve the people of Los Angeles. We failed. Fixing that is now and will always be our first priority. We want you watch us do just that -- hold us to that standard. Every part of our investigation of our own will be open to the public. We will not hide behind our jobs. We will not conduct an investigation of our own in secret. Now on to Mr. Dorner, who we note is a dangerous man and previously one of our own as well."
If they said something like that and followed through I might give a damn about a man hunting them. As it is, I honestly can't care about a force that itself is just as dangerous (if not more so) than the criminals.