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The “Don’t Shoot, I’m Not Dorner” memes and t-shirts circulating the internet can totally be justified from this incident.

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A third person came forward this week after he was shot at by LAPD officers because they suspected he was alleged murderer Christopher Dorner. Police had already mistakenly shot two innocent people last week during the manhunt.

The incident occurred when David Perdue was on his way to the beach to surf on Thursday morning. That’s when a police cruiser “slammed into his pickup and officers opened fire,” reports the Los Angeles Times.

The bullets missed Perdue, but his attorney, Robert Sheahen, said his client suffered a concussion and hurt his shoulder, making it temporarily impossible for him to work at his job as a baggage handler at LAX. Perdue’s car was also totaled, Sheahen told the Times.

The police department released a statement regarding the shooting.

“The circumstances of the incident known to the responding officers would have led a reasonable officer under normal circumstances — and these were far from normal circumstances — to believe that fellow officers were being shot at and that the vehicle traveling toward them posed a serious risk.

“In the split seconds available to them,” the statement continued, “action was appropriate to intervene and stop the actions of the driver of that vehicle.”

Hmmm. The police department also said that they had reason to believe the pickup truck coming towards them was Dorner’s.

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But get this, Perdue isn’t a 6-foot tall, 270 pound man. In fact, Perdue isn’t even black! And he’s reportedly very thin.

The paper notes that “Perdue is a thin white man who looks nothing like Dorner” who is black and heavier set.

“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,” Sheahen said in a letter sent to the department and obtained by the Daily News. “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.”

Well, since authorities have reportedly caught Dorner, maybe the random shootings will stop. But then again, we’re also talking about the LAPD. 

SOURCE: Huffington Post