Welp, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office has done it again. Once again, they have let cops off the hook. Actually, no wait … we’re trying to put the cops on the hook, and the district attorney is the one who won’t even bring the hook out. That’s it … that’s exactly what’s going on. District Attorney Jackie Lacey doesn’t want to hear no bad news ‘bout no cops. Don’t say one word, because she is not having it. Law enforcement in Los Angeles can do no wrong; they can plant guns, shoot and suffocate people; beat up visitors at the jail; and punch homeless women with mental issues on the side of the freeway. Wednesday, January 26, we found out that it’s even okay for them to shoot to kill the wrong people in the wrong vehicle.
Remember a couple of years ago when one of LAPD’s own, Chris Dorner, turned against his fellow officers? Had a hit list of all the people he was looking for? Scared the LAPD so bad they decided not to take any chances and ordered a protective detail for all of the officers on Dorner’s hit list. The protective details were set up round the clock, at the officer’s homes, while they worked and tried to go about their lives until Dorner was apprehended. Obviously, some of those officers were a bit skittish:
“LAPD officers were guarding one of the officers on Dorner's manifesto hit list on Feb. 7, 2013 when a blue Toyota pickup truck allegedly matching the suspect's vehicle drove up to the scene. Police opened fire and aimed at least 100 rounds at the occupants of the truck who they mistakenly believed to be Dorner's.”
“Margie Carranza, 47, and her mother, 71-year-old Emma Hernandez, were wounded and rushed to local hospitals. Carranza suffered a minor bullet wound, and Hernandez was shot twice in the back and reported in stable condition.”
“The city of L.A. reached a $4.2 million settlement with the uninvolved female civilians who were out delivering newspapers at the time their pickup truck was riddled with bullets.”
Carranza and Hernandez were in a blue Toyota Tacoma truck. Dorner drove a gray Nissan Titan. For the record, Carranza and Hernandez looked absolutely nothing like Dorner. Twenty-five minutes after Carranza and Hernandez almost met their deaths, cops in Torrance also part of a protective detail, let loose on David Perdue who was driving a black Honda Ridgeline for some early morning surfing. Again … Perdue, a white male, looked nothing like Dorner.
So now, even though the LAPD found that the officers who shot up Carranza and Hernandez acted out of policy, they will not be criminally charged for a mistake that nearly took human life.
“Prosecutors cited insufficient evidence that the officers weren't acting in self-defense or in defense of others.”
Someone’s got to protect us against those vicious newspaper deliveries. It’s rough out there in those streets in those early morning hours.