LIVE: Fugitive Dorner in shootout with police in Big Bear / Update, May be Dead !!!

Dorner May Have Died In Fire After Standoff; Deputy Shot To Death

 http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/02/12/authorities-responding-to-big-bear-home-on-report-of-hostage-situation-unknown-if-connected-to-dorner/

Reports of automatic gunfire ringing out.

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Accused cop killer Christopher Dorner is reportedly in the middle of a gun battle with police in the Big Bear area of Southern California.  There have been reports of one or two officers down during the reported shooting.

A Fish and Game warden might be one of the wounded.  Authorities swarmed to the scene earlier today after it was reported Dorner was spotted in the area.  The gun battle is reportedly happening near Glass Road and Highway 38.

Earlier reports said Dorner had tied up a couple in a cabin in the area and possibly stole a truck.  Dorner is accused of killing three people in the Los Angeles area, including one Riverside police officer.

He’s been the subject of a manhunt since last week. In his manifesto Dorner said he did not want to be taken alive.

Update!!!

Transcript: Reporter Carter Evans Trapped In Center Of Dorner Gunfight

IG BEAR (CBSLA.com) — CBS2/KCAL9 correspondent Carter Evans was describing the situation to anchor Sandra Mitchell via cell phone when authorities began exchanging gunfire with fugitive Christopher Dorner. Gunfire was heard from several directions.

»COMPLETE COVERAGE: SoCal Manhunt

BACKGROUND: yelling, faintly “Get out of here, get out of here”

SANDRA: Is that someone yelling the background, carter?

CARTER: Yeah, we got authorities yelling at us to get out of here, but we don’t know where to go, frankly to tell you the truth.

….

SANDRA: Carter what are you hearing, what are you seeing.

CARTER: Uh, I see authorities, I’m going to have to speak quieter now, I have you on the speaker phone. I see authorities honing in on an area on a cabin that is about 200 feet ahead of us right now. I see a lot of these authorities moving to take cover themselves.

[SOUND OF GUNFIRE]

CARTER: I hear some screaming, you heard all that gunfire.

SANDRA: That was gunfire.

CARTER: I see a team of sheriff’s deputies in full-on fatigues with weapons drawn running toward us right now. We are down on the ground behind the wheels of our car right now and the door is open, I am talking to you on the speaker phone. We are right, right in the center of the action here, we are right where this is happening.

….

CARTER: We’re trying to, we’re not moving from our vehicle, because this is a very fluid situation. We’re staying here, we don’t want to get caught in the crossfire ourselves.

UNIDENTIFIED: Hey you! Come here!

CARTER: Me?

UNIDENTIFIED: You! Come here! [Unintelligible]

[SOUND OF RAPID-FIRE GUNFIRE]

UNIDENTIFIED: Hey! Get the f— out of here now!

[Unintelligible]

[SOUND OF GUNFIRE]

[Unintelligible yelling]

[SOUND OF GUNFIRE]

….

SANDRA: I want to check back with Carter Evans. Carter? Are you there?

….

[YELLING]

UNIDENTIFIED: Get the f— down. Down! Keep it down!

[UNINTELLIGIBLE]

UNIDENTIFIED 2: Hey, hey! …Get the f— out, get the f— out now.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/02/12/transcript-reporter-carter-evans-pinned-down-in-center-of-dorner-gunfight/

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~Steve~

The Sunday Funny Papers

Splinters in Her Crotch!

A woman from Los Angeles who was a tree  Hugger, a liberal Democrat, and an anti-hunter, purchased a piece of  Timberland near Colville, WA. There was a large tree on one of the  highest points in the tract. She wanted a good view of the natural  splendor of her land; so, she started to climb the big tree. As she neared the top, she encountered a spotted owl that attacked her. In her haste to escape, the woman slid down the tree to the ground and got many splinters in her crotch. In considerable pain, she hurried to a  Local ER to see a doctor.

She told him she was an environmentalist, a democrat, and an anti-hunter and how she came to get all the splinters. The doctor listened to her story with great patience and then told her to wait In the examining room and he would see if he could help her.  She sat and waited three hours before the doctor reappeared. The angry woman demanded, “What took you so long?” He smiled and told her,  “Well, I had to get permits from the Environmental Protection Agency,  The Forest Service, and the Bureau of Land Management before I could remove old-growth timber from a “recreational area” so close to a  waste treatment facility. I’m sorry, but due to ObamaCare, they turned me down.

GOD BLESS AMERICA

~Steve~                               H/T   May

Having solved all problems, LA Council focuses on priorities

Los Angeles City Council calls for ‘Meatless Mondays,’ cites health and  environmental concerns

NY Daily News: The drive-thru capital of the world has declared Mondays meatless.

In a unanimous vote, the Los Angeles City Council adopted a resolution  encouraging residents to go vegetarian on the first day of the work week as part  of an international movement aimed at reducing the planet’s meat  consumption.

“Eating less meat can prevent and even reverse some of our nation’s most  common illnesses,” Councilwoman Jan Perry said. ”We’ve become disconnected in some ways from the simple truth that our health is directly affected by the foods we eat.”

The councilwoman noted that meat-rich diets can play a part in the  development of heart disease and cancers of the kidney, prostate, breast and  colon. “We can reduce saturated fats and reduce the risk of heart disease by 19  percent,” Perry said.

Environmentally, reducing meat consumption can shrink a community’s carbon  footprint and help slow global warming.

Still, the city’s anti-meat motion doesn’t really have teeth: It is not backed by force of law and is merely a recommendation, but council members hope  it will encourage residents to take a few small steps to improve their health  and the environment.

This move aligns the city with a larger meatless campaign launched in 2003 by affiliates of  the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. It has since  been backed by 30 public health schools.

Even though Los Angeles has a budget deficit of over $230 million, their unemployment rate is 9.4%, and has over 23,00o homeless citizens, the council chooses to spend their time on a useless resolution. Priorities, after all.

DCG

Rodney King dead at 47

Remember Rodney King — whose beating by cops in 1991 ignited one of the worst riots in the history of Los Angeles?

King was found dead today, at age 47.

Rodney King in 2004 (Photo by J. Emilio Flores for NYT)

According to the New York Times, police in Rialto, Calif., said they received a 911 call at 5:25 a.m. Sunday from King’s fiancée, Cynthia Kelley, who reported finding him at the bottom of his swimming pool. King, 47, had been living in Rialto, a small middle-class city, for several years.

Police arrived and removed King’s body from the pool and tried to resuscitate him. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead at 6:11 a.m.

Lt. Dean Hardin of the Rialto police said that officers were investigating the case as a drowning and that there are no signs of foul play. The San Bernardino County coroner’s office will perform an autopsy.

On March 3, 1991, King was driving at over 100 miles per hour when he was pulled over by the Los Angeles police. After he attempted to escape on foot, he was caught by several officers who proceeded to beat him. He was struck with batons and kicked dozens of times, as well as shot with stun guns. He later said that he was running from the police because he was afraid that he would be in violation of his parole on a 1989 robbery conviction.

The next year, after officers involved in the beating were acquitted, angry black rioters rampaged through the streets of L.A., smashing and looting stores, beating passing motorists and setting scores of fires. The riots left 65 dead.

In the two decades since the riots, King has been in and out of jail and rehabilitation centers, mostly for drug and alcohol abuse. He has been arrested multiple times for driving under the influence, and spent short stints in prison in the late 1990s for assaulting his ex-wife and daughter. In recent years he has appeared on the television shows “Celebrity Rehab” and “Sober Living” on VH1.

In April, King published a memoir detailing his struggles, saying in several interviews that he was hopeful, but that he had not been able to find steady work and was essentially broke.

The “broke” Rodney King lived in this swanky house with a pool

TMZ reports that “sources close to King” said that Cynthia Kelley, King’s fiancée, is telling friends Rodney had been drinking and smoking pot all day Saturday, in the hours leading up to his death.

Kelley went to bed at 2:00 AM, Sunday. She next saw King at around 5:00 AM when she was awoken by him screaming in the backyard, naked and banging on the glass. She called out to him, “What’s wrong, Rodney?”, then went to grab her phone when she heard a big splash. She went to the backyard and discovered him in the bottom of the pool and called police.

H/t FOTM’s beloved moxielouise & Dennis

~Eowyn

Dog risks own life by staying next to dead friend

If your friend were killed by a car on a busy street, would you risk your life by staying close to his/her body, as cars whisk by?

That’s what a black Labrador retriever did on a busy street in Los Angeles.

As recounted by the Daily Mail, April 15, 2012, a black female Lab braved traffic to stay next to a motionless yellow Labrador with blood on its head, on Hacienda Blvd. in Los Angeles, as vehicles pass dangerously close to the dogs. The yellow Lab had been fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver.

Finally, a good Samaritan motorist intervened, put down traffic cones to alert other drivers, called animal control, and took this video:

Animal control officials eventually arrived and took the frightened but unharmed black Lab to the Baldwin Park Animal Care Center. The animal shelter’s director Marcia Mayeda said, “When I saw the video clip taken from a passerby’s cellphone, it made me emotional.”

The Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control (DACC) said in a statement: The black Lab was “laying in the street next to another dog, which was motionless and had suffered obvious head trauma,” according the San Gabriel Valley Tribune.

Animal shelter staff and volunteers named the loyal black Lab “Grace.”

Grace is two years old, appears to have been well cared for but does not have a tag or microchip implant. But nobody has came forward to claim her, so she is up for adoption.

Sherman Oaks Patch reports that the unnamed good Samaritan who came to Grace’s help has offered to adopt her. But as of April 16, 2012, he still had not come for her.

Happily, Grace’s loyalty garnered so much publicity and international attention that, even if the good Samaritan doesn’t show up, there are five other people who have indicated they want to adopt Grace.

CBS Los Angeles reports that the owners of Grace, whose real name is Maggie, have come forth to claim her and provided documentation that showed Maggie is their pet.  They deny knowing about the yellow Lab.  They will take possession of Maggie, probably on April 17, after authorities inspect their property. The owners, whose names were not being released publicly, will be issued citations for having an unregistered dog, and for allowing the animal to run loose.

I hope Maggie’s owners take better care of her. And just between you and me, I don’t believe their story that they don’t know the yellow Labrador.

~Eowyn

Why you shouldn’t walk and text at the same time

~Eowyn

Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz Taps Out in Tough Radio Interview

‘Borderline Offensive’: Debbie Wasserman Schultz Left Nearly Speechless After Tough Interview

If those interviews by DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, where she does nothing but spew talking points and condescending quips, annoy you, then you will likely jump for joy over what you’re about to hear.

Doug McIntyre, a radio host at 790 KABC-RADIO in Los Angeles, interviewed the chairwoman on Monday about the DNC’s decision to name LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to head the party’s convention. As McIntyre notes, Villaraigosa has his critics in Southern California (“Los Angeles can’t even pave the sidewalks”), and McIntryre was floored that he was chosen.

Considering that, he did the opposite of a fluff interview and did the impossible: he left the snarky Wasserman Schultz nearly speechless. Sure, she was able to fall back on to some talking points (demonizing the rich, blaming Republicans), but by the end, she tapped out.

Intyre said, back in 2009 LA Magazine dubbed Villaraigosa a “failure.”

“It’s a common enough sentiment around town, even among Democrats, but a pretty startling turn given the early pro-Antonio leaning of the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Kit Rachlis,” LAObserved wrote at the time.

And yes, LA Weekly has dubbed him the “11 percent” mayor for his lack of time spent in LA. Here’s how the Weekly responded when Villaraigosa was picked as the new head of the conference of mayors.

“So the 11 percent mayor will now have even less time in his busy schedule of flying around the world, holding press conferences, and cutting ribbons to do any real work for Angelenos,” it said. But it didn’t stop there: “Wonder what Villaraigosa plans for the conference’s future? Lessons in how to write a city budget by obscuring important facts and figures.”

Just goes to show that when you hit a liberal with an unending stream of facts they will fold up like a cheap suit, in Schultz’s case it’s a cheap pantsuit.

Tom in NC

This year’s Stella Awards go to….

May it please the Court:

The True Stella Awards® were inspired by Stella Liebeck. In 1992, Stella, then 79, spilled a cup of McDonald’s coffee onto her own lap, burning herself. A New Mexico jury awarded her $2.9 million in damages, but that’s not the whole story. Ever since, the name “Stella Award” has been applied to any wild, outrageous, or ridiculous lawsuits.

* SEVENTH PLACE *
Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The store owners were understandably surprised by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son.

* SIXTH PLACE *
Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles, California won $74,000 plus medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Truman apparently didn’t notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor’s hubcaps.

* FIFTH PLACE *
Terrence Dickson, of Bristol, Pennsylvania, who was leaving a house he had just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get the garage door to open. Worse, he couldn’t re-enter the house because the door connecting the garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut.  Forced to sit for eight, count ‘em, EIGHT days and survive on a case of Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the home-owner’s insurance company, claiming undue mental anguish. Amazingly, the jury said the insurance company must pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish. We should all have this kind of anguish.

* FOURTH PLACE *
Jerry Williams, of Little Rock, Arkansas, garnered 4th Place in the Stella’s when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical expenses after being bitten on the butt by his next door neighbor’s beagle – even though the beagle was on a chain in its owner’s fenced yard. Williams did not get as much as he asked for because the jury believed the beagle might have been provoked at the time of the butt bite because Williams had climbed over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog with a pellet gun.

* THIRD PLACE *
Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania because a jury ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after she slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone. The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument. What ever happened to people being responsible for their own actions?

*SECOND PLACE*
Kara Walton, of Claymont, Delaware sued the owner of a night club in a nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor, knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge, the jury said the night club had to pay her $12,000….oh, yeah, plus dental expenses. Go figure.

And now…. Drum roll…

* FIRST PLACE *

This year’s runaway First Place Stella Award winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who purchased a new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, from an OU football game, having driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver’s seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owners manual that she couldn’t actually leave the driver’s seat while the cruise control was set. The Oklahoma jury awarded her, are you sitting down? $1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home.

If you think the court system is out of control and America has lost ALL
common sense, be sure to pass this one on!!!

~ Steve~           H/T  Joseph

Breaking News: ICE Agent Shoot Out at Long Beach Federal Building

2 ICE Agents Shot by Fellow Agent at Federal Building in Long Beach

One ICE agent was killed, a second ICE agent injured, the shooter was a third ICE agent who was killed 

Full Story on KTLA TV

How illegals are smuggled into the U.S.

These dramatic pics were taken by U.S. Immigration officers at the U.S.-Mexican border.

The UK’s Daily Mail reports, Feb. 3, 2012, that customs officers have arrested five men in connection with a people-smuggling ring that used vehicles adapted with ingenious secret compartments to smuggle over 1,000 of illegals into the US.

Illegal migrants paid between $2,000 and $4,000 dollars to cram themselves into tiny spaces next to V8 engines or to be locked into the trunks of cars during some of the hottest times of the year.

In an attempt not to arouse suspicion, the gang used non-Spanish-speaking blacks recruited from poor areas of Los Angeles to drive the vehicles across the border near San Diego. The drivers’ inability to communicate with the immigrants also meant they had limited information about the broader smuggling scheme.

The drivers were paid between $300 and $800 for each of the dozens of people they smuggled across the border. Once the illegals were smuggled across the border, they were picked up and transported to Los Angeles.

Immigration officials began investigating in January 2010 when border patrol agents reported seeing a rising number of African-American drivers with illegal immigrants hidden in the trunks of their cars.

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Also a “good” way to smuggle terrorists into the U.S.!

~Eowyn