Christopher Dorner manhunt...One year later.....These are men we trust with OUR LIFE ?

LAPD cops at fault for shooting innocent women during Dorner manhunt

All that was said was the officers may be extensively retrained, I think they should be fired. Started shooting when a newspaper hit the ground "thought it was a gunshot" wrong truck, wrong color, occupants wrong gender, occupants wrong color. Nothing matched except the first 2 digits of the license plate. They could see the license number at 5:00 in the morning, in the dark, but saw nothing else, so they just shoot....I count less than 50 hits on the truck, with over 100 shots fired. Maybe they should spend time on the range also.

                                                                                                                                                               

Published time: February 05, 2014 16:53    Police detectives investigate a shooting incident involving a blue Toyota Tacoma pickup truck in Torrance, California, February 7, 2013. Police opened fire on the vehicle in a case of mistaken identity while searching for former Los Angeles police officer Christopher Jordan Dorner (Reuters / Patrick Fallon)

                                          A civilian oversight board now says that eight police officers from the Los Angeles, California area violated departmental policy last year when they mistakenly opened fire on a pickup truck believed to belong to at-large suspect Christopher Dorner.

Two women were shot and injured a year ago this week in the town of Torrance, CA when their vehicle was erroneously assumed to be driven by Dorner, a 33-year-old ex-cop suspected of killing a police officer in cold blood only hours earlier in the nearby town of Riverside.
The women were delivering newspapers just before dawn on the morning of February 7 when their blue Toyota Tacoma was mistaken mid-route by police for the grey Nissan Titan that Dorner was spotted driving hours earlier. At a news conference on Tuesday this week, Chief Charlie Beck of the Los Angeles Police Department recalled that an officer confused the sound of a paper being thrown against the pavement with that of a gunshot, and opened fire on who he presumed to be the disgruntled former cop. Seven other officers then began shooting.
By the time the smoke had cleared, the officers involved had fired more than 100 rounds at the women's pickup truck. Emma Hernandez, 71, suffered two gunshot wounds to the back, and her daughter, 47-year-old Margie Carranza, was injured by auto glass shattered during the early morning encounter.      MORE OF STORY