Dorner christopher biography

CHRISTOPHER JORDAN DORNER

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On February 3, 2013 a former LAPD officer, named Christopher Dorner, attacked and killed Monica Quan and her fiancé Keith Lawrence. This incident sparked a nine day manhunt for Dorner ending in suicide.

Christopher Dorner was born June 4, 1979 in New York. He spent his childhood living in Los Angeles, transferring between multiple schools in the area. After graduating from Southern Utah University in 2001 Dorner joined the Navy reserve. On February 1, 2013, 2 days before he committed multiple homicides, he was honorably discharged from the Navy as a Lieutenant.

While Christopher Dorner was in the Navy reserve he joined the Los Angeles Police Department in 2005 and completed his training in 2006. A year later in 2007 Dorner filed a report a Complaint against his training officer Teresa Evans for using excessive force against a mentally ill man whom they arrested. Dorner claimed that Evans kicked the person that they arrested in the face while he was on the ground in handcuffs. His claims could not be substantiated and so were dismissed. Dorner was fired from the LAPD in 200

Christopher Dorner: What made a police officer kill?

Nonetheless, Charlie Beck, Bratton's replacement, felt compelled to announce during the manhunt that Dorner's firing would be re-examined.

"I do this not to appease a murderer," he said in a statement. "I do it to reassure the public that their police department is transparent and fair in all the things we do."

It was not enough to satisfy sections of the community whose mistrust of the police persisted. Some declared Dorner a hero, creating Facebook pages with titles like "Christopher Dorner for President".

Asked by the BBC whether Dorner's claims would damage the relationship between the force and those it was meant to serve, an LAPD spokeswoman said Beck's decision to re-open the disciplinary case would ensure there was "no misunderstanding between the police and the community".

Connie Rice, an African-American civil rights lawyer who helped broker reforms of the force after the 1992 riots, warns that Dorner's rants should not be conflated with the legitima

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