If he had stuck strictly to cops, we’d be all good, but one of the first people he murdered wasn’t one.
Going after the families of bad people when they really didn’t play any role in the bad person’s actions is abhorrent and indefensible. Kids shouldn’t have to pay for the sins of the father and all that.
It doesn’t completely invalidate the good he did do/say, but it’s definitely a black mark on his record and why I can’t really get fully behind him, even for meme reasons.
I’ve brought him up before, but I think Micah Xavier Johnson is overall a better example. Apparently he was a sexual harasser when he was in the military, which is obviously terrible, but at least you can say when he went on his spree that he didn’t go for any non-cops.
I think getting engaged to a school cop and trying to have her father pull strings to get him a job a full-time job on the police force is evidence of some kind of pathology.
All that is is hypotheticals tho, and making assumptions about her motivations when odds are we’ll never truly know since she’s, ya know, dead.
I’m going off of the facts that we do know, and they don’t lead me to believe that she was asking to be murdered.
No, that part was reported in the newspapers. Not an inference.
https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/02/usc-slain-officer-christopher-dorner.html
Lawrence joined the university’s campus safety department in August after Quan’s father called Thomas, an old LAPD acquaintance, to recommend him.
“I’ve known Randy Quan for about 25 years. We were both on LAPD. Called me about a year ago and says ‘J.T., I’ve got this great possible candidate who you ought to take a look at if you get a chance. His name is Keith Lawrence and he’s dating my daughter. I think he’s an outstanding young man,’” Thomas said.
I’m not talking about that, I’m talking about you theorizing about her hypothetical “pathology”.
For all we know, she could’ve just been any other lib who believed the typical “cops are good guys who serve the community” propaganda. Ya know, the propaganda that the vast majority of people in this country believe. That I, and probably you, believed at one point. I believe those people deserve to be called out/criticized/etc., but I don’t think they all deserve death.
