I'm seeing a lot of Chris Dorner references online lately, and I do understand why. But I wish people would think more about Monica Quan, the 28-year-old assistant coach at Cal-State Fullerton he murdered.
Quan was shot alongside her fiance. These are their pictures.
Quan was shot alongside her fiance. These are their pictures.
Dorner's rage was understandable, his fury at a bigoted system was righteous. But his actions were not.
Quan's fiance, Keith Lawrence, was a campus cop at USC. Does this make him a participant in a broken and vile system? Yes. Does it justify he and his fiance's death?
Quan's fiance, Keith Lawrence, was a campus cop at USC. Does this make him a participant in a broken and vile system? Yes. Does it justify he and his fiance's death?
I struggle every day with a deep well of rage over the horrific things I have watched police do to other people. I can only imagine how much stronger Dorner's rage must have been. On a moral level, I can justify many different actions to fight such a system. But not this.
The LAPD is absolutely a culprit, both in Dorner's tragedy and in a million others over the years.
But when we decide bullets are the only solution for the people involved, and at the periphery, of such a system, we have reached a place even worse than where we started.
But when we decide bullets are the only solution for the people involved, and at the periphery, of such a system, we have reached a place even worse than where we started.
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