LAPD Officers Won’t Face Charges After Opening Fire on Delivery Women During Dorner Manhunt

Los Angeles Tiems ^ | 01/27/2016 | By Joseph Serna and Kate Mather•

[BenLurkin]

ight Los Angeles police officers who mistakenly opened fire on Los Angeles Times newspaper delivery women thinking they were rogue ex-cop Christopher Dorner in 2013 will not be criminally charged, the L.A. County district attorney’s office announced Wednesday.

The officers opened fire in the predawn hours of Feb. 7, 2013, as Margie Carranza and her mother, Emma Hernandez, were slowly cruising though a Torrance neighborhood in a pickup truck delivering papers.

Law enforcement officers around the region were on edge during the massive manhunt for Dorner, the ex-LAPD officer who sought vengeance against police officials he blamed for his firing. Dorner ultimately killed four people and wounded three others before he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound during a shootout with police near Big Bear.

In Torrance, the LAPD officers were in the area protecting a captain believed to be one of Dorner's targets. The officers thought the women's truck matched the description of Dorner's vehicle.

Hernandez was shot twice. Carranza suffered cuts to her hand, likely from broken glass. Both women survived and received a $4.2-million legal settlement from the city.

[ClearCase_guy]

Of course not. They were in fear for their lives. /s

[Secret Agent Man]

I called it then. Unbelievable.

They fired like 70-100 rounds into thattruck, and they arent’t prosecuted.

Big brother can never do anything wrong to citizens.

[nascarnation]

Unless they’re black citizens....

[Uncle Miltie]

Wrong make model color occupant count color gender description ......

Shoot!!!

[Lazamataz]

Bet you a buck they weren’t even taken off the force.

[Farmer Dean]

Those idiot cops are bad shots,thank God.

[RobinOfKingston]

So, now we have another reason for opening fire on citizens: the police were “on edge.”

[Uncle Miltie]

And cops wonder why we don’t trust them.

[Blue Jays]

The officers thankfully showed restraint when shooting at the GRAY pick-up truck the perp was allegedly driving.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Ridiculous. Only the taxpayer pays.

[Farmer Dean]

Looks like they probably ran out of ammo.

[SaveFerris]

Everybody hates the newspaper!

But in all seriousness, yah, you’re correct.

[Blue Jays]

If someone offered me $4.2M to sit in an identical vehicle and repeat this shooting, I wouldn't take that bet.
It is an absolute miracle that Margie Carranza, 47, and her mother, Emma Hernandez, 71, survived that ordeal.

[DoughtyOne]

[Farmer Dean]

Sometimes God intervenes in these situations.I truly believe this.

[BraveMan]

[Osage Orange]

Looks like they really hated that truck!!

[Secret Agent Man]

They were minorities, or at least one was. I thought they were two hispanic women.

[Fred Hayek]

I would rather trust a law abiding citizen who just got his CHL than trust some cops.