that s why the other side who says it s a big burden are not really honest if we re being honest with ourselves. it s like a police officer stopping you for speeding. every police stop i ve had took longer than a background check. you re working for tommy of boston and all the other mayors. and a reminder for us, the conversation at hardball continues long after we re off air here. visit our blog at hardballblog.msnbc.com or find us on facebook facebook.com/hardball. the other big story we ve been following, christopher dorner. this is hardball, the place for politics. [ coughs ] [ breathes deeply, wind blows ] [ male announcer ] halls. let the cool in.
the week-long manhunt for revenge seeking ex-police officer christopher dorner seemingly came to a fiery and violent end yesterday in big bear lake, california. many questions remain tonight about the former lapd officer and what sent him on a killing spree claiming four lives including the daughter of his former boss. his manifesto, he was trying to clear his name after being fired by the lapd back in 2009 which was four years ago. he claims specific people he wanted to go after saying quote, they have awoken a sleeping giant. one person who may have some insight into that what bratton was the l.a. police chief at the time of dorner s firing. he is also a much respected police commissioner the city of new york. he was much affected by dorner s chilly manifesto, as was i. do you have a sense of how this is going to go down in history, this case? i think it is historic in the sense there are many unique aspects to it, the scale, the magnitude, and some aspects of
our deputy sheriffs are some true heroes. they re highly trained and i will tell you that i m proud to be a member of this department. and our deputy sheriffs did a great job yesterday. thank you: any questions? will you take questions now, chief? yes. can you confirm that it is mr. dorner, his remains. i cannot absolutely positively confirm it s him. the suspect that we were following and also had stolen the vehicle, matched his description. his behavior, based on our deputy s intersaction with him was consistent to mr. dorner prior to and we re not currently involved in a man hunt any longer. our coroner is working on trying to confirm the identity through forensics and we should know that at some point. sheriff, there are lots of questions about the fire that started at the cabin.
and there was extensive work of the cabins. please understand that there s an on going investigation and many of your question wills be answered at a later date. we re not going to be taking any further questions at this point. statements will be made summarized and we ll be posting an update to the department web site. i d like to thank you all for coming to our press conference. that concludes the press conference for today. was there any offer to surrender? can anybody speak to whether there was any tactical abilities that he bragged about? we had been listening in to authorities from the sheriff s department there speaking with reporters taking questions during a news con frensz. they are still not positively identifying the remains of what is believed to be christopher
questions, please hold them until the question and answer period. with that, i introduce sheriff john mcmahon. good afternoon. the events that occurred yesterday in the big bay area, brought to close an extensive man hunt for murder suspect, krisz fer dorner. it was in response to a stolen vehicle with the suspect matching the description of dorner, was later discovered that he crashed that vehicle and carjacked a vehicle in the angeles-oaks area. the deputies continued searching that area for the new suspect vehicle, the white pick-up truck, as well as dorner. the deputies were able to locate the vehicle crashed and he dorner, fled into a vacant cabin. as the deputies were arriving, we believe suspect dorner began