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DevonRex

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10. The police asking for media blackout does not equal police corruption.
Fri Feb 15, 2013, 02:40 AM
Feb 2013

Nor does it indicate intent to burn someone alive. In fact, it is standard procedure in situations in which the media could be filming or broadcasting and thus giving a heads up to the person they're attempting to arrest. In Dorner's case, he had already murdered people. The last thing they wanted was for him to have specific information about officers' positions so he could gun them down, too. He had already shot 2 in Big Bear, killing one of them. It is a common self-defense practice. Do you understand or do you think Dorner should have been given the opportunity to murder even more policemen in Big Bear?

I find your attempt to paint all police officers and departments as corrupt very disturbing. I also find your attempt to link events from one community to another to another, in different situations, even in different states, with only a thin thread tying them together, to be very disturbing. I find it quite disturbing that with everything that happened with Dorner, your vitriol has only been aimed at the police. Very disturbing indeed.

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