[Vision2020] Redondo Beach man, shot at by police in Christopher Dorner manhunt, calls Torrance officers 'reckless'

[Paul Rumelhart]

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Paul


Redondo Beach man, shot at by police in Christopher Dorner manhunt, calls Torrance officers 'reckless'
By Sandy Mazza, Staff Writer
Daily Breeze
Posted:02/10/2013 05:07:19 PM PST

One of three victims in police attacks meant for fugitive Christopher Dorner is speaking out through his attorney, who calls Torrance police officers "violent and reckless" for shooting at and detaining him. 

After all, David Perdue is a thin white man who looks nothing like Dorner. And he was questioned and released by officers just moments before another officer slammed a patrol car into his truck and fired shots at him.

Perdue left his Redondo Beach home and was driving through Torrance to the beach for some early morning surfing on Thursday when he was stopped. Officers guarding the home of a law enforcement
 official targeted by Dorner questioned him because his Honda Ridgeline pickup truck resembled the vehicle investigators believed Dorner was driving.

Seconds after he drove away, Perdue's truck was broadsided by a Torrance police car at the corner of Flagler Land and Beryl Street, said his attorney Robert Sheahen.

"These lunatics broadsided the side of his truck, spun him around and started shooting at him," Sheahen said. "Now they're attempting to say they couldn't tell if the guy they were shooting at was a white guy or a black guy because David's airbag went off."

Perdue suffered a concussion and a shoulder injury in the attack, which took place minutes after LAPD officers opened fire on another pickup truck nearby. In that instance, two women delivering newspapers were targeted. One woman was shot twice in the back and the other was injured by broken glass.

Torrance Police Department released a statement explaining that
 Perdue's truck was "suddenly leaving the area" and seemingly veering into a patrol car when the two vehicles collided at 5:15 a.m.

"In the split seconds available to them the action was appropriate to intervene and stop the actions of the driver of that vehicle," a Torrance police statement reads. The department also offered to pay Perdue's medical bills and rental car expenses.

Perdue's attorneys requested copies of all police video and audio recordings of the incident, copies of statements taken at the scene, and the incident report. Sheahen said they may eventually sue the department.

"In light of the officer's attempt to kill Mr. Perdue Mr. and Mrs. Perdue would like to know what, if any, disciplinary action the Torrance Police Department intends to take against the officers involved," the attorney's letter states. "They would also like to know what the (department) intends to do to make sure that their community is not
 endangered like this in the future."
sandy.mazza at dailybreeze.com
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