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If Cops Are THIS Afraid of Each Other, Why Should the Public Support Them?
William Norman Grigg
Lew Rockwell Blog
January 15, 2014
Redondo Beach resident David Perdue was nearly murdered by police on the way to the beach last February 7. Torrance Police Officer Brian McGee rammed his vehicle into Perdueās truck and opened fire on the driverās side without pausing to identify the driver, who he thought was former LAPD Officer Christopher Dorner.
A few hours earlier, Dorner ā who had published a manifesto condemning the LAPD and threatening to kill officials involved in his termination from the force ā had shot two Riverside County cops, killing one of them. McGee was among the thousands of police officers who took part in the manhunt for Dorner ā and like all of his comrades, he was incapacitated by panic.
When he spotted Perdueās car, McGee told investigators, he was āpanicking inside, thinking if I donāt get out of this car seat, Iām gonna die. Heās gonna kill me. Heās gonna shoot me. I one hundred percent believe itās him.ā
So acting in the finest tradition of police valor, and in the name of the most important policy consideration, āOfficer Safety,ā the Iraq War veteran opened fire on Perdue. It was the victimās immense good fortune that the assailant was a cop: Thanks to McGeeās good enough-for-government āworkā marksmanship, Perdue survived the attack.
Dorner was a large, heavyset black man. Perdue is a slender white man. Once those obvious differences had penetrated the blinding haze of panic that had enveloped McGee, he stopped shooting.
āThis guyās killing cops,ā jabbered McGee by way of explanation to his terrified victim. āHeās here to kill more. Heās killed one in Riverside, killed a couple in Irvine, heās got a rifle, heās military trained.ā
McGeeās attack inflicted $20,000 of damage to Perdueās truck. The victim ā a member of the productive class ā suffered head and spinal injuries that resulted in him losing his job as a baggage handler. Fret not for McGee: His job in the parasitic sector is secure, and he has been cleared by the L.A. District Attorneyās office.
According to the DA, McGee made a āreasonable mistakeā when he rammed Perdueās truck and tried to kill him sight unseen ā because his life, and those of his fellow law enforcement officers, were of singular worth. After all, the security of the Stateās punitive caste is infinitely more important than the rights of a mere Mundane.
āMcGee was aware that Dorner had threatened to kill any law enforcement officers who interfered with his plan to exact revenge,ā the DAās report observes. āMcGee and [his partner, Officer Erin] Sooper came away from the briefing believing that an encounter with Dorner would result in either their own, or Dornerās death.ā That report, predictably, drew exclusively from the self-serving accounts provided by the assailant and his colleagues.
A police officerās āauthorityā to engage in discretionary killing is co-extensive with his personal cowardice. McGee will face no civil or legal consequences because the prospect of confronting a fellow police officer gone ārogueā had reduced him to a puddle of panic.
William Norman Grigg
Lew Rockwell Blog
January 15, 2014
Redondo Beach resident David Perdue was nearly murdered by police on the way to the beach last February 7. Torrance Police Officer Brian McGee rammed his vehicle into Perdueās truck and opened fire on the driverās side without pausing to identify the driver, who he thought was former LAPD Officer Christopher Dorner.
A few hours earlier, Dorner ā who had published a manifesto condemning the LAPD and threatening to kill officials involved in his termination from the force ā had shot two Riverside County cops, killing one of them. McGee was among the thousands of police officers who took part in the manhunt for Dorner ā and like all of his comrades, he was incapacitated by panic.
When he spotted Perdueās car, McGee told investigators, he was āpanicking inside, thinking if I donāt get out of this car seat, Iām gonna die. Heās gonna kill me. Heās gonna shoot me. I one hundred percent believe itās him.ā
So acting in the finest tradition of police valor, and in the name of the most important policy consideration, āOfficer Safety,ā the Iraq War veteran opened fire on Perdue. It was the victimās immense good fortune that the assailant was a cop: Thanks to McGeeās good enough-for-government āworkā marksmanship, Perdue survived the attack.
Dorner was a large, heavyset black man. Perdue is a slender white man. Once those obvious differences had penetrated the blinding haze of panic that had enveloped McGee, he stopped shooting.
āThis guyās killing cops,ā jabbered McGee by way of explanation to his terrified victim. āHeās here to kill more. Heās killed one in Riverside, killed a couple in Irvine, heās got a rifle, heās military trained.ā
McGeeās attack inflicted $20,000 of damage to Perdueās truck. The victim ā a member of the productive class ā suffered head and spinal injuries that resulted in him losing his job as a baggage handler. Fret not for McGee: His job in the parasitic sector is secure, and he has been cleared by the L.A. District Attorneyās office.
According to the DA, McGee made a āreasonable mistakeā when he rammed Perdueās truck and tried to kill him sight unseen ā because his life, and those of his fellow law enforcement officers, were of singular worth. After all, the security of the Stateās punitive caste is infinitely more important than the rights of a mere Mundane.
āMcGee was aware that Dorner had threatened to kill any law enforcement officers who interfered with his plan to exact revenge,ā the DAās report observes. āMcGee and [his partner, Officer Erin] Sooper came away from the briefing believing that an encounter with Dorner would result in either their own, or Dornerās death.ā That report, predictably, drew exclusively from the self-serving accounts provided by the assailant and his colleagues.
A police officerās āauthorityā to engage in discretionary killing is co-extensive with his personal cowardice. McGee will face no civil or legal consequences because the prospect of confronting a fellow police officer gone ārogueā had reduced him to a puddle of panic.