#chris dorner

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"Respect Troops"

Christopher Dorner sticker seen in Portland, Oregon

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Chris Dorner proves that the phrase "reasonable people pushed to do unreasonable things" needs the addition of "won't have any coherent ideological backing for any of it and end up defending the structural power that got us here in the first place because they're really just disgruntled centre right moderates with guns"

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My fall plans:

The delta variant:

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"Communiqué from an Ex-Cop," by Chris Dorner, annotated by Research and Destroy.

From the beginning, all news outlets have referred to Dorner’s text as a “manifesto,” often preceded by the word “rambling,” (a Google News phrase search for “rambling manifesto” yielded 1,860 articles at the height of the manhunt) though more often “angry” (3,930 articles). Labeling a document a “manifesto” is one way the media marks its author as mentally unstable, or, even worse, a lone voice yelling into the wilderness. Revelations of isolated lives spent in cabins, whether in the remote Mon- tana wilderness or the snow-capped mountains of Big Bear, CA, paint an image of an unhinged, anti-social individual wholly out of touch with reality, if not totally against it (the climactic self-inflicted gunshot wound provides ultimate confirmation of this). The Riverside Chief of Police articulated early on the portrait of a suspect both solitary and certifiable: “My opinion of the suspect is unprintable. The manifesto I think speaks for itself as evidence enough of a depraved and abandoned mind and heart” (Blankstein, Andrew, Christopher Goffard, and Phil Willon. “A cop’s nightmare.” Los Angeles Times 7 Feb. 2013: A1). Yet Dorner’s text doesn’t lay out a vision of a better world or posit ideas on how to fix society’s ills, nor is there a broad call to arms—all key characteristics of the manifesto genre. In fact, it reads more like a communiqué than a manifesto. It is a series of grievances followed by a series of promises. By the time the media caught on, those promises had effectively become claims of direct action, his grievances serving as their justification.

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Sigh

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Christopher Dorner pasteup seen in Chicago, Illinois.

Dorner was a former LAPD officer who declared war on the organisation in February 2013, releasing a manifesto outlining his grievances with the LAPD, and gunning down numerous officers and their family members in hit-and-run attacks.

After 9 days on the run, Dorner was killed during a standoff with San Bernardino County Sheriff's Deputies after a shootout at a cabin in the San Bernardino Mountains.

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Radical graffiti seen in Palm Springs, California393