CNN: Chris Dorner Is 'Like Watching Django [Unchained] Getting Revenge'

On Wednesday, a CNN panel explored the phenomenon of people on social media expressing sympathy and support for Chris Dorner, whose rampage ended yesterday as law enforcement cornered him in a remote cabin in Big Bear, California. Two of CNN's panel guests said that Dorner's murder spree exposed the issue of "police brutality." One contributor said that Dorner's escapades reminded him of watching "Django Unchained in real life."
The Daily Beast contributor Lauren Ashburn said she was offended by those who found Dorner's murderous actions laudable. She said that his attacks on innocent people were a tragedy, and hours of airtime were "wasted" covering the killer's motivations.

"There's no waste here, though," Marc Lamont Hill, host of HuffPost Live and associate professor with Columbia University, interjected. "This has been an important conversation that we've had about police brutality, about police corruption, about state violence."

"As far as Dorner himself goes, he's been like a real life superhero to many people," Hill added. "What he did was awful, killing innocent people was bad, but when you read his manifesto, when you read the message that he left, he wasn't entirely crazy."

Hill said that the people who were rooting for Dorner were rooting for him to extract vengeance against a system that wronged him. "It's almost like watching Django Unchained in real life," Hill said. "It's kind of exciting."

Hill later said that the Dorner exposed the corruption within the Los Angeles Police Department.

MC Lyte, the host of Mocha Cafe, said that Dorner's original motives were benevolent, though she conceded that it as "extreme to take another's life."

"It's an uproar, because people are being brutalized," Lyte said. "We're seeing kids die at the hands of police brutality."

"It's good to hear what these people have to say," Lyte said of Dorner' sympathizers on social media

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[OVXmedia]

lapd actually shot at innocent people for mistaking they was dorner. smh

[eric22701]

The mainstream media is disgusting

[MrRickywallace]

What do you watch, Beaucoup: Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, Chris Matthews, MSLSD? Bet someone like your ignorant ass watches at least two of these. Give sources, authors, networks, etc., when debating, or you look like the ignorant ass you are. "Liberal Fascism" by Jonah Goldberg and "Ameritopia," are books that you and your ilk should read. Dive in, Dip Shit!

[pinkkiieee]

You should put your helmet on b4 you hurt yourself! The mere fact that you watch Faux News reveals your level of intelligence...slim to none!! Fair and balanced are two words that have no commonality with Faux! Get a grip!

[MrRickywallace]

Pinko, that's you. Fox is nice and tolerant to have a third rate, Affirmative Action, token Black Columbia professor on to prove they're fair and balanced because he's just a racist like Sharpton, Jackson, Obama, and Holder. Listen to what he always says: it's something about whites: he has a book about whites that says they're overrated, like Elvis, etc., but he has nothing about blacks who are overrated. You're too stupid to realize this because you're either a racist black or a "liberal."

[pinkkiieee]

your intelligence level seems to be equal to or maybe even less than what you proclaim Marc Hill's to be. Hill never said nor implied that killing people because blacks have been discriminated was either just or excusable.

[Infantry9]

Equating a real life incident involving innocent people getting killed and a suspect getting burned to death to a fictional action movie is sickening. I would never have my kids attend any college that would hire a professor like him.