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

[Art Deco]

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From: Art Deco <art.deco.studios at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Redondo Beach man, shot at by police in
Christopher Dorner manhunt, calls Torrance officers 'reckless'
To: Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com>


It becomes intolerable when citizens are more likely to be harmed rather
than helped by LE.  Those around then will remember such a condition during
the last part of Joe Overstreet's tenure as sheriff.

w.


On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com>wrote:

> From the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin:
> http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_22561406/redondo-beach-man-shot-at-by-police-christopher?source=rss_viewed#ixzz2KcLoD86u
>
> 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
> Follow Sandy Mazza on Twitter at http://twitter.com/SandyMazza
>
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