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An Intentional Fire? Police Use of Incendiary Tear Gas Criticized in Killing of Christopher Dorner

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Channel: Democracy Now! · 2013 · News & Politics

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DemocracyNow.org - Medical examiners in California say they have positively identified the body of former Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner, the man authorities say killed four people over the past two weeks in a campaign of terror against the LAPD. Dorner's body was found in the burned-out ruins of a California mountain cabin ending the most extensive manhunt in California's history. Questions are being raised over whether police intentionally set his hideout on fire after police officials confirmed the use of incendiary tear gas. An audio recording from a police scanner appears to show officials from the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department planning to deploy "burners." In another recording that was aired live on the television station KCAL, a police officer can be heard in the background shouting, "We're going to burn him out," and "Burn it down!" We are joined by former Seattle police chief Norm Stamper, who says, "Whether it was intentional or not, a very predictable outcome of deploying seven burners in what appears to have been a wooden cabin would predictably leave it in rubble." 

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