The Real Facts About Christopher Dorner, The Cop-Killer Cop

Anyone with nuanced musical tastes probably remembers the song from Body Count, Ice-T’s band, called Cop Killer. Cop Killer started off with a rather aggressive threat to police, as did other songs from Body Count, that suggested the murder of police officers in mass. While Body Count definitely spoke to the frustrations of many of underprivileged Americans in its day, it also sparked national political and social outrage for its endorsement of violence on the police. Cop Killer picked up in the footsteps of NWA, speaking to the frustration of downtrodden people everywhere who’d been abused by the hands of the police. But Body Count was formed in 1991, with the song coming shortly after that way back when the Rodney King beating was also being publicized widely and criticism of the LAPD was in full swing. At that time, a young man by the name of Christopher Dorner would be only in high school, having graduated in 1997, making him a young, impressionable teen- a teen who would, oddly enough, go in the other direction and end up becoming a cop. No one could have guessed that this soon-to-be military and police officer would someday become the face of the idea, when, in 2013, Dorner became a cop-killing serial killer, seemingly out of nowhere. While most of us conjure up the sexual variety of murderer whenever we hear the words, “serial killer,” Dorner’s motivation was…