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This undated photo released by the Los Angeles Police Department shows suspect Christopher Dorner, a former Los Angeles officer.
Many families who were under the LAPD’s protective custody are beginning to return to their normal lives after spending the last week living with officers outside their doors 24/7.
On Thursday – just one day after a sighting of fugitive Christopher Dorner led to a deadly shootout and fire at a Big Bear-area cabin – NBC San Diego spoke exclusively with one woman whose mother was a target in Dorner’s online manifesto, which outlined a homicidal revenge plot involving law enforcement and their families.
For a week straight, black and white patrol cars sat outside this family’s home. The resident inside was an LAPD officer who was named in Dorner’s hit list.
“It was really scary; kind of surreal. [It] felt like a movie,” said the daughter, who wished to remain anonymous.
The woman said her mother tried to remain calm despite the frightening ordeal.
“She’s been really strong, just more worried about her children than anything,” she said. “There were four different tiers of officers who needed protection and my mom was in the second tier.”
Since Feb. 6, the LAPD has kept close watch on 40 people who were named in Dorner’s manifesto, along with their families.
Timeline: Revenge-Plot Slayings | Map: LAPD Manhunt
This has been an overwhelming undertaking for the department when you consider three officers to each home, 24 hours a day.
Still, the protection from law enforcement was unwavering.
“It's scary but I mean at the same time, her house was the safest place to be. She had so much protection,” the daughter told NBC San Diego.
Now that officials have ended the manhunt for Dorner, relief has washed over many targeted families.
But, now, other feelings are bubbling up as well.
“It's all setting in that people are dead and, I don't know, I think [my mother] having a hard time with it. I think there's a certain amount of shock,” the daughter added.
Some LAPD families who were considered most at-risk in Dorner’s manifesto remained under police protection Thursday night, but many are now on their own since the threat seems to have passed.
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Ok..Mom is fine, Dorner is dead and the whole ordeal is now over. I'm not ready to start hearing from all of the Fame Seekers from the hit list....
If Dorner hadn't put out his manifesto so early he would likely have killed several before the police connected the dots.
Has anybody confirmed that Dorner is actually dead?
lilmschargerfan
Ok..Mom is fine, Dorner is dead and the whole ordeal is now over. I'm not ready to start hearing from all of the Fame Seekers from the hit list....
I completely agree. Unfortunately, the media will be running this into the ground as they do everything. I am sure the daughter will want to write a book. cha-ching
Glad Dorner didn't get to fulfill what he set out to do. My condolences to the families that lost a loved one in this horrible ordeal. Let the families grieve in peace, keep the cameras and reporters away. The media doesn't need to rehash this day after day after day. Coulda, woulda, shoulda......who knew?
Make sure that "Mom" is kept away from the police around there, you never know who they are going to kill next, now they have a list to follow----Obviously they do not care who they kill every day at random in the name of investigating the public, like several shootings in this case! there or anywhere else.
Prove he's dead. Personally I think the LAPD is covering up and has no idea where Dorner is. It's a strange story and they already lied about him dieing once.
Oh there will be people coming forward, for thier 15 minutes of fame, on TV shows, etc. saying they were on the list.. Is it not funny, how everyday people have not private protection i.e. sitting in front of the house, etc. yet the police can do so for their own, when they are threatened. Kind of being one sided right ? And they want to remove our firearms so we can not protect ourselves, yet they have them and protect each other.. Talk about hypocritial and prejudice.
Wonder how may copycat killers will now use that list for targets.. That will really shake them up.
I can't believe the conspiracy idiots that can't believe the obvious...
Christopher is deader than a barbecued DoorKnob.
It's pretty amazing how some people blame LAPD for everything bad that happens. If Dorner worked for Baskin and Robbins he would have "had it in" for the employees there like he's "had it in" for the women he dated. He was a mentally disturbed man. He could have "had it in" for you if you had the misfortune of knowing him.
Christopher Doner did NOT receive a fair and unbiased trial. Judge Yafee accepted over $500,000.00 in money that was NOT authorized by law.
Please sign petition to stop bribes to judges. Google SBX211
Complete Main-stream media blackout. Please Tell others. Bring this out in the light.
i`m sure someone is already wrighting a movie script ...
100% correct bill.
NO BOOKS
Where is the article concerning Doner's favorite Progressives in his manifesto?
Yeah, I would really like to hear some comments from Chris Matthews on this issue.
lilmschargerfan -- I could be wrong, but don't "Fame Seekers" usually provide their name in order to become famous? Anonymous fame?
I'm hoping you're not proofreading the script.
OK.... can we give everybody their 15 seconds of fame and be done with it.
As Emerille would say......."BAM" done!!
If she's hot, she can come stay with me for awhile.
You need to be prepared... There might be books written too about their ordeal.
What this man did was horrible without any doubt. Why? is another question I would like to hear the story from both sides.
"It was really scary; kind of surreal. [It] felt like a movie," said the daughter, who wished to remain anonymous." Why is everything surreal these days? I think awake and fully alert would have been a better state to be in during the last few days.
USAF...I have asked myself that same question "What's with this surreal garbage?" It's the new catch phrase.
I want to know how you feel that your misconduct as a law enforcer may have been the cause of your family facing harm?
Chell,
You stole the words right out of my mouth - though I had a coarser way to ask the question. I wonder if mom has had any second thoughts about being such a ___— (fill in your favorite 4 letter adjective, mine starts with C).
Do you Dorner worshippers have to insult everyone else? How do you know that she was even an officer? He clearly stated that he was gunning for the families of the people who he perceived had "wronged" him.
Are there no limits to your hatred?
Dorner worshippers are going to believe the rantings of a lunatic....says something about our society and how they vote.
Life is all about time and chance and how you deal with the good or the bad each and every day. My guess is Dorner may have been wronged at LAPD, but many of us have been wronged at work. Most of us don't choose to go postal; instead we find another job. He should have joined another police force in some other town and went on with his life, rather than turn into a vicious murderer.
Bob..your delusions are not helping you succeed in life. It must be AWFUL being you thinking the whole world is out to get you and you must stay one step ahead. Especially since you have NO skills to do anything, let alone outsmart others.
Tell me...do you just wake up every day contentmplating suicide so you can go out on YOUR terms on not theirs? Becuase if so, it probably is not a bad idea to go for it. No one will be sad. Don't worry.
All of these people taking the word of a man who murdered the daughter of a man he says wronged him. Anybody taking the word of this monster has lost any credibility right there.
Yeah, right. Everyone was on Dahmer's hit list.
That is probably the "chupacabra" officers mom, she was proud of drawing blood from the suspects she detains, according to the manifesto.
According the to ramblings of a murdering idiot, you mean.
So, id bet Christopher Dorners life that the woman that this article is referring to, is the one who started this whole mess in the first place. the rest of this rant will be theoretical in nature. many lives are tragically changed forever with one kick to the face and chest of an insignificant man years ago. If she wouldnt have lied about this whole thing we wouldnt be reading this while the families of the dead are making funeral arrangements. Also three citizens wouldnt have been targeted by over reactive police shooting at anything. This woman is squarely to blame, I wonder if she is sleeping well these days, If I was in the same position as the woman that kicked the guy and screwed with Dorner, i wouldnt be able to sleep at night and id be racked with guilt. When you ruin somebodies life you dont know how they will react mentally. They may commit suicide, they may do worse.
I disagree that the man was insignificant - who are any of us to place significance on a person?
not quite understanding the need to remain anonymous......something to hide?
"... was on Dorner's hit list" -- Are they 100% sure they got him though?
Her mom is probably the nasty cop who beat/kicked a suspect and her mom is the one who lied and the police protected. She needs to crawl back across that "thin blue line" and shut up already
This female cop was corrupt. I have no problem with these corrupt cops dying. They deserve it.
That abusive female cop will still get her comeuppance. People like her have wronged more than a single perp whilst on the yob "fighting crime".
if you have no problem with taking a life than you can't have a problem if someone taked yours. someone in this wolrld may think you deserve it.
There are no crooked cops on the LAPD; everyone knows that.
Of course, I rather get beat/kicked by a crooked cop than killed. They should have negotiated with him, though- found him innocent, reinstated him as department head, a $100 Dunkin Donuts gift card and a platinum billy club.
(As usual, the same FBI armchair detectives are on here that could have saved the hostage boy from his captor with knockout gas, a box of chocolates and a dozen roses...)
John~ Do you know that she is corrupt or are you throwing stuff against the wall? Oh, you also want to be the judge, jury, and executioner saying that she must die. .. with no trial. You do know the scary implications of your words? Oh wait....you don't.
I think it's wonderful that a liberal hero is dead.
*YAWN* TROLL*
The fact that the liberal corrupt media continues to show this smiling face of this man who killed innocent people enforces just how corrupt they are. I am reminded of the picture of trayvon martin that they continued to run of him at a much younger age appearing innocent when in fact, he wasn't innocent at all...he was a gang banger and a punk who got what he deserved just like this dorner, another liberal hero...they got what they deserved. THE END. Hey liberals, you don't like it - TOUGH CRAP. It's the TRUTH. You can't handle the TRUTH!
Can't wait to see your smiling face for weeks on Fox after you're dead.
I don't see where the DNA test has positively confirmed that body was his. I wouldn't relax just yet if I was on that hit list.
Scary this guy was scary?
Check out what CNN had to say about him,
"One of the common threads –'I read the manifesto — and this is not a crazy man," Lemon said. "He is quite sane. People need to read and think. Don't be reactionary like a sheep. Read what he wrote. Look at the details. Process some of it. Be discerning instead of just reacting. I have a lot of questions about the LAPD.'"
You see folks when the crazy radical nut job mass murderer turns out to be some a leftist ( they usually always are BTW) there is a reason and "justification" from their having murdered innocents.
You need look no further than the next person you see wearing a T Shirt with communist mass murderer Che Guevara on it to understand that to a radical Leftist MURDERERS are to be IDOLIZED and called MARTYRS
And your problem is?
Gent
I had no problem
only an observation on how dangerous the leftist radicals in our society are.
They are truly useful idiots
Another "LAPD" chickencrap! Hid because she knew she was guilty, innocent people don't hide like cowards..
To bad CHRIS can't finish what he started. LAPD needs to go!!!
sharky, wasn't your boy caught hiding in a cabin, innocent people don't hide like cowards.
Love how you Sheeple accept this BS as credible reporting!!!! Wait a anonymous girl who's anonymous Mother that was listed on Dorner's hit list?????? Where is the reporting? Where is the evidence? GIVE US ACTUAL FACTS!!!! This was just another Troll story wrote by some "reporter" that never even left their desk. Forget about reporting actual stories when you can just make them up and claim that the fore-mentioned individual wishes to remain anonymous. ANOTHER TROLL MSNBC REPORTER WITH NO CREDIBILITY!!!!
Why isn't the focus on the fact that he was a survivalist and a left wing racist?
only white conservatives can be call racist...silly jasper
Why has the police stated the fire in the cabin was started by tear gas cannisters when they were heard on different radios requesting permission to use flash grenades and other types of grenades and then given the OK. This may be one more reason this case needs to be reopened and examined by others than the LAPD people.
Why do you care? This guy lost his job for lying about one of his co-workers and felt that killing every cop and his family he came across was the right response. What difference does it make if the police started the fire with smoke grenades, flash grenades, or a damn flame-thrower, for that matter? The guy wasn't going to give up alive and anyone who tried to take him alive risked serious injury or death. He got what he deserved. Quit trying to make the LAPD the bad guys.
"It was really scary; kind of surreal. [It] felt like a movie," said the daughter, who wished to remain anonymous."
Was it like the "Dirty Harry"Movie? The bad guy had a list of names too. This is so surreal...
Christopher Doner did NOT receive a fair and unbiased trial. Judge Yafee accepted over $500,000.00 in money that was NOT authorized by law.
Please sign petition to stop bribes to judges. Google SBX211
Complete Main-stream media blackout. Please Tell others. Bring this out in the light.
Please see my response to jali36 above.
I still find it amusing when I hear the NRA and the gun lobby complain about gun-control measures saying "its not the normal, law-abiding person doing these things...". Well, what was this guy before he wigged out? I also read a couple of weeks ago about a guy who sold cubicles. He went to sell to another man who decided not to buy because he couldn't refurbish the cubicles. What did the "law-abiding" salesman do? He went home, got a gun, and went back and killed the would-be customer. Again, a law-abiding citizen who blew his top when he got stressed. Don't tell me it is only hardened criminals who kill people like this.
You are absolutely right, Dan. Anyone can go nuts at anytime. It's not safe anywhere. Arm yourself, brother. You are the only one who can protect yourself. When seconds matter, the cops are just minutes away. Peace. Out.
Sorry but you got me all wrong. I don't think giving more people more guns will help matters.
I didn't get you wrong, Dan. I was poking fun at you. But think about what i said. There's a lot of truth there. I'm not a supporter of the NRA. But i do own guns because of it's leadership. The NRA is arming rwnj's who will run amuck if the gubment ever fails. I'll be ready for the marauding bastards. This liberal fights back.
like left wing marauding bastards ... like chris..maybe?
I don't care if your black or white "The devil does not support his own". Chris Dorner thought he was getting revenge on his former employer (LAPD) by killing innocent people. Everybody knew Chris would get what he deserved in the end!!!
Now they can go back to what they where doing, like beating and abusing the citizens of LOS ANGELES.