Police claim they did not deliberately set fire to cabin believed to house Christopher Dorner
By Madison Ruppert
Editor of End the Lie
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Despite audio from a local news station and even clear statements on police radios heard over a police scanner (and recorded), law enforcement is now claiming that they did not deliberately set fire to the cabin in which Christopher Dorner was believed to be hiding out.
According to AFP, police denied that the fire was deliberately set, instead saying they threw a type of pyrotechnic tear gas into the cabin, while still denying that the fire was intentional.
“Sheriff McMahon confirmed that officers had thrown in a kind of pyrotechnic tear gas, which can catch light,” AFP reports.
“We did not intentionally burn down that cabin to get Mr. Dorner out,” San Bernadino Sheriff John McMahon said.
Even CNN reported on the audio from a Los Angeles television station that captured the sound of someone saying, “Burn it down … burn that goddamn house down. Burn it down.”
Yet, according to CNN, the order to use the “burners” did not come for another two hours. “Seven burners deployed, and we have a fire,” one officer said on the radio around 4:16 pm.
According to USA Today, “[McMahon] said deputies initially fired conventional ‘cold’ tear gas into the cabin in Seven Oaks, near Big Bear Lake, then switched to ‘pyrotechnic-type’ rounds known as ‘burners.’”
McMahon also said, “We believe that this investigation is over, and we’ll just need to move on from here.”
While police say they have strong evidence that the individual tracked to the Big Bear cabin “looked and behaved like Dorner,” they still cannot “absolutely, positively confirm” that the body found inside was indeed Dorner.
“I cannot absolutely, positively confirm it was him,” McMahon said, according to ABC.
According to San Jose Mercury News, the actual identification of the body could take anywhere from hours to weeks and it isn’t clear what method of identification will be used.
The best way to determine identity is DNA, according to Dr. Cyril Wecht, former president of the American Academy of Forensic Science, but that could be quite difficult to obtain from a severely burned body.
Furthermore, investigators need DNA from Dorner to compare with DNA from the remains from the cabin.
“Wecht said they could go to family members to get similarities that can be used as a match,” according to Mercury News.
Others, like Scott Carrier, an individual who worked with the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office for over 30 years, say dental records will be the way to go.
“In the end, the dental records are imperative. Even with all the new crime scene techniques — with DNA and other procedures — you need to have something to compare the DNA with to get a positive identification,” Carrier said. “Dental records are still the best way.”
While the actual identification of the body will be left up to the San Bernadino sheriffs, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said they are prepared to offer help identify the body in an interview with CNN.
“We all are breathing a sigh of relief. We do believe it is the body of Christopher Dorner, but we don’t know for certain,” Villaraigosa said, according to Reuters.
“We have been working collaboratively from the very beginning to bring this man to justice,” Villaraigosa said, according to Mercury News. “We are prepared to offer any help we can to identify the body.”
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They are lying through their teeth. It is very plain from the audio’s that they intended to burn him and the cabin to a pile of ashes.
From the start, they had intended to kill Dorner. The two women shot as they delivered papers. Shot from the back, no warnings, no instructions, no identifying themselves. Just emptied their guns into the back of the truck and into the back of one woman. WITHOUT even knowing who was in the truck!
The surfer from Torrance. He had been stopped by police and released when they realized he wasn’t whom they were seeking.
Another cop comes along as he is pulling away from the first set of cops and this new arriving cop rams into him and then proceeds to shoot at him. AGAIN, without knowing who was in the truck.
He stated he was veering towards the cops and looked like he was not going to yield. Huh? A few moments earlier he was completely stopped.
Anyone who believes the cops new and improved version of events, that completely contradict with the facts, is about the same as the guy who they piss on his back and tell him it’s raining.
So what if they executed the wrong guy? They have blood on their hands! They never intended to bring Dorner to justice, they intended to silence him permanently, and they apparently did so. Execution squads have replaced due process. I’m sick of having all news edited and redacted by people who think they can lie to us with impunity. It’s time for the criminal elements to be removed and the rule of law restored.
According to Australian news , ‘U.S police have definately killed Chris Dorner, officers rammed the cabin (in which he was staying), a single gunshot was heard ‘ The place caught fire but that wasnt explained nor was the radio contact. Filtered information to the rest of the world can generate the wrong kind of support for illegal campaigns like this. Can someone email me some wholesome links?
You don’t have google?
First off, who would believe the gun and badge thugs anyways?!
Next they had to burn him out because 1) they, all of them are big pussies 2) revenge (see item 1 again) 3) They don’t have to pay an award of $1Mil. if he is not “tried and convicted” and 4) If they burned it, there is some financial liability to the owners. However if the cabin burned “inadvertently” then there is less liability.
Only shame is that he did not get more of them. Yes, I do feel bad for the two innocents, but not her father.
I can only imagine what that guy went threw.To see how the police officers reacted to him just lets us know what they are about.With every move they make they prove themselves.They should stop while they are ahead.There are people who know what’s really going on and we are watching you.We are not all followers and stupid.We see how violent and corrupt you are.Police Officers hide behind their badge to do bad things to people but unfortunately your sick world is unraveling.All darkeness comes to light.
just like the accidental fire at WACO
The LAPD NEVER INTENDED ANY TRIAL BY A JURY.
TO KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING IN “ALL Law Enforcement, courts and administration of justice”, today is bad for The Nazi Police State in place RIGHT NOW.
(SO SORRY SUCH A “GOOD-COP” HAD TO PAY THE Ultimate Price.)