Los Angeles police are worried about being targeted at the Grammy Awards on Sunday, a former Los Angeles deputy police chief said Saturday.
John Miller, now a senior correspondent at CBS News, said that former LAPD officer Christopher Jordan Dorner has a plan that could include targeting a police command post at a major incident, such as the nationally telecast Grammy broadcast at the Nokia Theater Sunday.
Speaking on the “CBS Morning News” Saturday, Miller said he has talked with Los Angeles police and found them to “have an anxiety factor that is unbelievable.”
Miller said Dorner probably did not plan to abandon his truck, loaded with weapons, in Big Bear.
“The reason it was there was not because it was where he was going, he broke the axle,” Miller said on Saturday’s broadcast.
“He probably left only the ammo he couldn't carry,” the CBS News senior correspondent said. Miller, a former FBI assistant director, served as LAPD’s intelligence chief under then-chief William Bratton.
Dorner, Williams theorized, may have a plan and “could circle back and attack the command post.”
“Look at the organic things that happen in Los Angeles,” Miller said. “There will be the Grammys Sunday in Los Angeles, where you will have a major police command post.
“I’ve spoken with people there and their problems are very interesting,” Miller said. “One problem is, can they get enough cops to police the Grammys, when they have had everyone out deployed on this?”
Williams’ comments were made on Saturday’s national telecast, and posted at cbsnews.com later in the day.
-City News Service
Sure he does. He would order that the armed guards at his children's school get dismissed so that he would be treated more like an average American. But he is THE KING, and he would never ever consider that due to his arrogance. So I think you are way out in left field, Wendy. Way way out in left field.
Guns don't kill people, PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE!! Period! And Chris Dorner killed 3 people. If he didn't have guns, he'd find another way. It's so true, if you hear someone break into your house, you'll call someone wih a gun. Get over your stupid gun control crap!! Do you people want government to dictate your entire life? Maybe wipe your butt and tell you when to go to bed at night? People make decisions, some times very bad ones, like Chris. Are you willing to give up all your freedoms due to a few nuts?
obama is not about to "order" the security at sidwell friensds chool terminated for several rfeasons.. chief among them being that he can't..sidwell friends is a private school, and not under his control.. but more importantly, it's the school of choice for most high-ranking government officials, as well as the school of choice for the children of most of washington's diplomatic corps.. jesus, do a little research before you spout off.. doug
How is brilliance defined? Borrow 43 cents of every dollar spent to pay for long term unemployment and welfare and suppress the financial pain of a piss poor economy . This maximizes those that have quit looking for work which means a lower unemployment number. These people are not counted as "unemployed" This also buys votes. Dependent people vote for those that mail their checks.Take welfare and entitlement roles and compare them to voter registration roles. Register as many inner city voters that are on welfare and entitlements as possible and go door to door to collect either absentee ballots or get them to the polls. Lastly turn the masses against the minority of upper wage earners and using "Democracy" as the excuse to steal over 60% of their earnings. Obama is the race to the bottom.
Wendy I'm proud of you!!!
as for the caps key..that's just the style i've been writing in for 42 years.. deal with it or don't read it.. doug
Did I stump you? If you have no answers to my questions or comments at least have the courtesy to say "I don't know". " obama is not about to "order" the security at sidwell friensds chool terminated for several rfeasons.. chief among them being that he can't..sidwell friends is a private school, and not under his control." Then maybe he should pull his kids out of sidwell and place them in a school with no armed guards to show the average American that he 'walks his talk'. Oh wait! I forgot! Obama hasn't 'walked his talk' since he's been in office, has he, Dougie?? "but more importantly, it's the school of choice for most high-ranking government officials, as well as the school of choice for the children of most of washington's diplomatic corps.." Oh, excuse me!!! You mean the 'high brow' school for wealthy democrats!!! HAH! No wonder they get all those special privileges like armed guards, a perk that King Obama forbids his peasants in public schools from having!!! HAH! :^)
i doin't plan to feed your paranoid hunger for anything to use to atttack obama on this or any other thread.. especially since obama has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS TOPIC.. you oughta trot back up to lake forest, or wherever the hell you're from..the people up there seem to know you.. i don't know you, and i have no interest in doing so.. i've got lots better things to do than try to educate you..which would be a lost cause in any event.. doug
This is one man causing all this Police anxiety. Just imagine if there were two or three guys doing the same thing, at the same time. The cops would go crazy. now imagine ten or twelve guys after the top guys in LAPD. The military would be called in and they would declare martial law. If there were forty or fifty they would call it a revolution and they would look for the rebel strongholds. The other thing that bothers me is that this guy is Black and they are shooting to kill. Were is the Justice department, were is the NAACP, where is Jessie and Al. This is a man of color, and they want to gun him down. Is this still illegal or did they change that law also?
It seems counterintuitive. But if one puts some deep thought into that subject matter it really starts to make perfect sense. There is a rhyme and a reason to most everything in life. :^)
Whoever is at the scene of the final shooting and gets it on cell phone video could probably write his own ticket. If the cops conduct themselves in the same manner as they did with those asian women in Torrance Dorner's surviving kin would probably own LAPD, the new HQ's, all the vehicles, uniforms, crime lab, jail, weapons, massive supply of donuts in the warehouse.... they would own it all. If one feels lucky it might be a good time to circle around LA and search for the clash of the titans. Dirty Hairy might even show up. Who knows?
As far as the legality of Shoot First/Confirm Identity Later, that may be why Chief Charlie Beck is now using the T word in regards to Dorner. The rules change significantly when you're dealing with a 'terrorist'...
I think most LAPD cops know about the corruption within their ranks and higher. The difference is that Dorner spoke out because he got hosed and the rest remain silent. For they know which side of their toast is buttered and who put it there. That 'code of silence' is very real. Regardless of all the vehement denials you hear about. It's the secret that everyone knows about.
For the LAPD, I think the only hope for them is to have an outside agency/higher authority monitor them/intervene in a meaningful way. They're certainly aren't just going to improve on their own. These press conferences they've been holding and incidents lately of Shoot First/Positively Identify the Target Later are sad and tragic. Someone said it best on one of these posts about the first priority needs to be to find this guy, but then the very next step is to have the FBI or US Atty's Office do a thorough probe of the LAPD at all levels.
That's what good, law-abiding, decent, civilized and productive citizens find so disgusting about it all. A completely double standard and LOWER standard that they police are held to as compared to the average everyday citizen. It really is the makings of a police state, not much different than you would find in any banana republic. Unfortunately I don't think reform with come through peaceful means. What I see today is analagous to a pressure cooker. Steam is building up in the pot but the value which emits the steam has malfunctioned. It builds, and builds and builds and builds until it goes BOOM. Sort of like what we saw in South Central in 1992. I fear that we are on that same path. And nobody will win. But egos are too big today for those in charge to come together, recognize the problem and move to make the necessary reforms. And why would the police change when they benefit from the status quo? Immunity from the laws and paid like medical doctors w/GED ed's.