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A group of policemen were guarding the residence of a high-ranking Los Angeles police official thought to be Christopher Dorner\u2019s next target when Carranza and her mother drove into the neighborhood which was on their paper route.<\/span><\/p>\n As the women\u2019s truck drove past the house being guarded, police officers fired a hail of bullets into the back of their pickup truck. Police confirm that the gunfire came in two bursts. It began from an officer down the block from the residence being guarded, and the second burst followed when the pickup tried to speed away from the gunfire and toward other officers.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThey felt like it was going on forever,\u201d says Glen T. Jonas, the attorney now representing the women who he says \u201ccovered their faces and huddled down\u201d as their truck cabin came under the barrage of bullets.<\/span><\/p>\n Only when they stopped shooting did the cops realize their horrendous and near deadly mistake.<\/span><\/p>\n Miraculously, the two women survived what was otherwise a killing zone.<\/span><\/p>\n The elderly Hernandez was shot twice in her back but is expected to recover. Carranza wasn\u2019t hit but suffered injuries from broken glass.<\/span><\/p>\n Pictures of the back of the truck showed at least two dozen bullet holes, but residents believe there were more shots fired.<\/span><\/p>\n Jonas says the police officers gave \u201cno commands, no instructions and no opportunity to surrender\u201d before opening fire.<\/span><\/p>\n At least seven officers shot at the vehicle, leaving the street pockmarked with bullet holes in cars, trees, garage doors and roofs.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cHow do you mistake two Hispanic women, one who is 71, for a large black male?\u201d says resident Richard Goo, 62, whose entryway to his house showed five bullet holes.<\/span><\/p>\n Other residents also say they wanted to know what happened.<\/span><\/p>\n The LAPD, meanwhile, faces one of its most embarrassing times \u2013 and likely to be one of its costliest when almost certain lawsuits are filed \u2013 at one of its most critical moments, as a manhunt for suspected cop killer Christopher Dorner continues.<\/span><\/p>\n Police Chief Charlie Beck says he doesn\u2019t doubt the women didn\u2019t hear any verbal commands, but he leaves open the possibility that his officers may have tried to stop their pickup before opening fire.<\/span><\/p>\n Beck also says the officers were already on edge and under the circumstances may have made a mistake.<\/span><\/p>\n After the investigation, the chief and an oversight board will determine if the shooting was justified or if mistakes warrant either punishment or training.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Read more: <\/span><\/a>http:\/\/www.voxxi.com\/latinas-survive-fire-christopher-dorner\/#ixzz2KXoTqd<\/a><\/span>8m<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Irony is NOT the word! These idiots just made Chris Dorner’s point!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}