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Frantic hunt for ex-LAPD cop with a vendetta

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    Murder suspect targets fellow officers in online manifesto

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Batten down it's a Los Angeles now to our newsroom west side of the city.

We're Trace Gallagher is monitoring developments -- this manifesto from this suspect is targeting cops.

It's it's stunning.

It is stunning seven it says he wants to kill cops because he believes -- ruined his name when they fired him and accused him of lying now.

He acknowledges that he will not be alive when his name is cleared but then again police have no intention of clearing -- they think that he is a cold blooded killer.

-- says the LA cops are more racist today than they -- during the Rodney King air.

And when it comes to killing them he wants to start small get bigger using -- tactics he writes and I'm quoting here.

You are aware that I have always been the top shot highest score an expert in rifle qualifications and every unit I've been in.

I will utilize every bit of small arms training demolition ordinance and survival training.

I've been given police say they believe him because they trained him he started with the LA police department -- Eight years ago today.

-- -- Trace I've read this thing and he.

He talks about Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper and and Willie Geist from NBC if it's bizarre.

A lot of people on television talks about politics Hillary Clinton and George W.

Bush he talks about a lot of pop culture -- and more importantly he names the people on the Los Angeles the police department.

Forty names and all and none of them are being made public.

Everybody in the manifesto is now getting extra protection in fact one of the police officers who was shot and wounded today was actually protecting -- target named in that manifesto.

-- says he wants the police and their families killed saying again quoting here suppressing the truth will lead to deadly consequences for you and your family.

There will be an element of surprise where you work live eat and sleep doctor -- that -- says he's apparently lost his empathy listen.

He's now devoid of that and so he is like a runaway.

Train.

He's capable in a terrible way of inflicting awful suffering and feeling nothing.

Because he has severed himself from his feelings.

I just wanna mention they are still searching snow tracks in the big bear mountain ship the sun sets and about forty minutes they're expecting snow and rain up there tonight.

With a low temperature of about twenty degrees.

Our coverage continues throughout the evening of the -- and up on big bear banks that manifesto.

Reference is a man named jeans you sura.

Calling him a great friend and attorney.

We spoke with James today -- our colleagues -- -- Fox News any -- not -- to the suspect in about four years.

That she -- for correspondent she's more on this guy any insight from him.

Yeah we spoke to James you -- at some length today -- Biden followed.

We told him about how he first learned about all of this that was happening wind.

His old friend Christopher door and out and he told us that when he first -- -- he was just stunned.

I'm just befuddled.

Absolutely befuddled you know would be no one expects to come to work and have an email from a reporter like it was times telling me that I mentioned in a manifesto that is someone who I consider a friend is.

You know has gone killings for your allegedly on -- killing spree.

So idea I would definitely -- and shot.

James Hughes Sarah attended university of southern -- Tom played -- all that width Christopher -- -- They both had pretty stringent political views he said.

They used -- you a lot about those politics but he said of job -- of a doormat he never saw a hint of a violent nature.

He seemed very.

Rational and you know articulate and intelligent and well -- and nothing about it behavior in my experience suggested that he was.

Violent in any fashion that he was I want to read more would take that traffic except.

Now we wrapped up the conversation by our skiing this to you -- walk his message would be to his old friend Christopher Dolan analysts and.

My message you would simply be turn yourself in and get this situation resolved you know enough damage is done.

Obviously you know my -- and criticize the people who have been affected by this must have been going in the families who have been that devastated by this.

So you know my message mr.

-- would simply be turn yourself and and put this kind of you know put an end of the.

Now talking of how this might and Christopher -- wrote in that so called manifesto all of his friend James you Sarah quote.

I'm sorry I'll never get to go on that -- and -- -- with you I love you -- Certainly doesn't sound -- like a man who is planning to see any of his old friends ever again -- he clearly is not Jonathan Hunt continuing our coverage in.

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