If the charges leveled against Christopher Dorner are genuine , the abbreviated but theatrical saga of the pig - sprain - vindictive - murderer start on Super Bowl Sunday . That ’s when Dorner allegedly sneaked into an apartment - complex parking garage in Irvine , California—”America ’s safest city”—and shot Monica Quan and her fiancé , Keith Lawrence , as they sat in their new white Kia .
Dorner emerged into the repose of our lives the way so many things do nowadays : on Facebook . Not long after allegedly killing Quan and Lawrence , the x - LAPD now - fugitive send to his Facebook page arambling , 7,000 - intelligence manifestothat , among other things , professed his plan to kill cops , and railed against the problem of ego - discipline in the black community . About a week afterward , on Wednesday , the San Bernardino Sheriff ’s Department say in a press conference that they were officially closing the investigation into Dorner , and yesterday police support that the charred , mangle corpse extract from a incinerate Angelus Oaks cabin were those of the 33 - twelvemonth - old , who once brook six feet magniloquent and weighed 270 Irish punt .
In retrospect , it really makes pure sensation that Dorner present himself and his plans to the world via Facebook . Facebook , a company that , like Apple , has become synonymous with what citizenry mean when they say “ technology , ” was the unadulterated plunge compass point for what would shortly become a crime drama littered with the digital flotsam and jetsam of our progressively electronic human beings . In a way , this was our first 21st Century manhunt , and look on it was equal parts exciting and revolting .
Almost immediately after Dorner ’s pronunciamento start to make its way around the cyberspace , fromGawkertolocal LA tidings stationstoRapGenius(yeesh ) , a competition was born that ended up travel along the Dorner report through to the very end - and even beyond . As California police teamed up to feather off with Dorner of late last week , America launch itself divided between those who supported Dorner and those who vilified him . There were those whowrote Dorner off as footling more than a cold - blooded lunatic , of course , but the eccentricities professed in his pronunciamento - a love for both George W. Bush and President Obama - also made him a sympathetic fibre for others . What ’s more , his characterization of the LAPD as a crooked hive of hood resonated with the many Americans who have long felt aggrieved by the seeming invincibility of bad law officer , a problem that ’s always beenparticularly judge in California .
There used to be a time not long ago when glorifying a Isle of Man who had made it his destination to go to warfare with police officers and their family might have found a person shunned by genteel fellowship , particularly in a post-9/11 world so awful of terrorism . Those days are gone . Facebook groups with names like“I Support Christopher Jordan Dorner”and“We Are All Chris Dorner”sprang up literally overnight . “Christopher Dorner Official,”which delineate Dorner as “ a man of integrity and honor , ” has over 16,000 ilk as of today . Other Facebook exploiter made Sir Frederick Handley Page to mock Dorner ’s enemies , like LAPD Sergeant Teresa Evans , the adult female Dorner had accused of brutality before being fired . One of those pages reads , “ [ Evans is a ] Caucasic female police force military officer known to use inordinate force . … She is indirectly responsible for the expiry of three people . ”
On Twitter , multitude of all kinds bonded over hashtags like # teamdorner , retweeting one another and laugh at dead police , much to the consternation of Twitter Conservative who directly label Dorner , a self - professed rooter of gun control and festal rights , a “ bighearted . ”
It was n’t just individual supporting Dorner on Twitter . Anonymous joined in also :
The LAPD is doing illegal things to charm an ex - cop doing illegal thing who was kick back off the force for peril fuzz doing illegal things
— Anonymous ( @YourAnonNews)February 8 , 2013
Anonymous Targets LAPD Website Hackers Unhappy About Chistopher Dorner Case |http://t.co / KodCtlml| Softpedia Report |#Anonymous#OpUSA
— Anonymous ( @YourAnonNews)February 11 , 2013
After Dorner had successfully eluded police force for three days , it was rumoredthat cops were institutionalise drones fit out with thermic - imaging systems to find him , thereby making the manhunt for Dorner as technologically driven as the online affray over whether he was a righteous and sound person . The drone account were finally discover to bewild exaggerations , if not outright Lie , but not before they ’d made their path around the internetvia Twitterand Tumblr and Facebook , adding to the snowballing mythology surround the Dorner tarradiddle .
https://gizmodo.com/report-ex-cop-christopher-dorner-is-now-a-target-for-d-5983175
The actual police work that go to Dorner ’s grisly ending was a lot less fanciful and Orwellian . After crashing his car in the hangout town of Big Bear , Dorner hoof it for about 20 miles to the mountain town of Angelus Oaks , where he invade a vacant cabin last Friday . When the cabin ’s owners , Karen and Jim Reynolds , returned on Tuesday , Dorner tied them up and put pillowcases over their heads before take their purple Nissan . After crashing the Nissan into a snowbank , Dorner carjacked a pickup truck from a Boy Scout leader , but by then it was too previous .
you could read everything about Christopher Dorner ’s final moment — the shootout , the tear flatulency , the burning cabin conspiracy theory — in 1000 of places online by now , probably tens of thousands . What you could no longer do is watch those moments play out live before your eye , as millions did on Tuesday . Thanks to things like livestreams from news chopper cameras and up - to - the - minute tweets , the globe had a front - wrangle seat to Dorner ’s fiery downfall in real time . We sawgun battlesunfold in our browsers , we bore witness to SWAT officers sneaking up to the cabin ’s windows to shoot through them , we watched green tear gas convolution and dissipate into the sky . At one level the San Bernardino Sheriff ’s office ask journalists to stop tweeting all they knew about the cabin raid for fear that Dorner would be tipped off to their occult plans .
Eventually , we watched a cabin burn down around Chris Dorner ’s body , which may or may not have already been beat from a ego - inflict gunshot wound . Dorner ’s remains would be so damage from the flames that constabulary could n’t be certain it was him until two twenty-four hour period later , after crosschecking deoxyribonucleic acid and dental record .
Within hour after the cabin had turned to ember , 4chan users had conspired to make the “ Chris Dorner ’s Last Stand ” videogame , a first - person hitman in which the role player course around a remote cabin slaughtering police officers and gathering bucket of fried chicken .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-kDyWU5Jos
The standard way to end these sorting of observations is by complaining about technical advancement as if it ’s somehow gnaw cultivated society . It would be gentle to rail against the fact that we now live in world in which you may observe a killer present himself on Facebook , watch that same killer ride a moving ridge of support via Twitter and blogs , and then watch that killer decease in a ardor — and all in less than week , without ever having to leave your computer . But that forgets that American Civil War engagement and public lynchings were once spectator sports . Puritans like to affect that everyone deliver hundreds of years ago was so much more moral and virtuous than us technophile now , but if Benjamin Franklin had been given the opportunity to check Christopher Dorner shoot at police officer with a silenced sniper rifle from a cabin stronghold , I have to think he ’d have been right on alongside the scores of multitude doing so on Tuesday .
The only interrogation now is where we can go from here . Our capableness and gadgets improve so gradually that it seems as if hardly anyone comment we just got unprecedented and immediate access into the life and end of a fugitive . It hail so naturally that , presumably , it will come up by nature when all homicidal lunatic begin disseminate their intentions ( and favorite motion-picture show ) on social media before going on the warpath , or when we watch telecasting footage from the first person to perpetrate a slaying and record it with their Google glasses , or when we watch the first cop to film himself shoot the life from a criminal with a GoPro mounted to his gun barrel . These sorts of things may not soon be the “ average ” per se , but they ’re not outside the kingdom of theory either , as this retiring week has showed us .
Almost 18 years ago , another Isle of Man with a homicidal distaste for authority published a pronunciamento in the Washington Post , this one even longer than Dorner ’s at 35,000 watchword . That man was Ted Kaczynski , the Unabomber , and unlike Dorner , he had but one lawful opposition : the endless march of applied science . He write :
conceive of an dipsomaniac sitting with a barrel of vino in front of him . hypothecate he commence articulate to himself , “ Wine is n’t bad for you if used in moderation . Why , they say small amounts of wine are even good for you ! It wo n’t do me any harm if I take just one little drink … . ” Well you know what is going to come about . Never forget that the human race with engineering science is just like an alcoholic with a bbl of wine .
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