Christopher Dorner's ex-training officer fighting for information

Lawyers for the city of Los Angeles say attoeys representing a former training officer for ex-LAPD Officer Christopher Doer aren’t entitled to view all of the investigative reports and persoel records involving the late rogue officer and want a judge to impose limits on what is released.

Doer killed himself in a 2013 standoff with police in San Beardino County. Sgt. Teresa Evans alleges in a lawsuit filed last October that she is being made a scapegoat because of the racial cootations attached to Doer’s claims before he died. Evans is White and Doer was black.

Evans’ attoeys want investigative files and Doer’s persoel records to help them prepare their client’s case for trial.

But the City Attoey’s Office filed court papers Thursday stating that the information sought by Evans’ lawyers is “impermissible overbroad.” They are asking Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Ste to put restrictions on access to the records. A hearing is scheduled for July 15.

Doer, who lived with his mother in La Palma, promised warfare on LAPD officers and their families for what he believed was his unjustified termination. The 33-year-old Navy reserve officer killed four people during his nearly one-week run from authorities, including the daughter of an LAPD captain and her fiance.

He died a few days later from a self-inflicted gunshot wound during a February 2013 confrontation with authorities at a cabin in the San Beardino Mountains community of Angelus Oaks.

Doer reported Evans to LAPD supervisors for allegedly kicking a suspect three times in 2007. In 2009, the LAPD found in favor of Evans.

“Here, plaintiff wants the full investigative file … which encompasses the investigation of a complaint by a third party of alleged misconduct by plaintiff and Doer from over five years ago,” the City Attoey’s Office court papers state.

Because the investigation into Doer’s complaints against Evans resulted in her exoneration and the firing of Doer, it is unclear why the plaintiff’s lawyers now need access to the file, according to the City Attoey’s Office.

“In other words, this investigation file holds no relevance to justify invading the privacy conces of Doer and the city,” the city attoey’s court papers state.

But Leila K. Al Faiz, one of Evans’ lawyers, says in a swo declaration that LAPD Chief Charlie Beck “made the unprecedented decision to reopen Doer’s complaint, although the matter had been adjudicated and closed.”

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Al Faiz believes Beck “had no legitimate reason to reopen the complaint after it was thoroughly investigated and adjudicated” and that Evans was “punished by the LAPD for being white because of the racial implications of Doer’s allegations against plaintiff and the department.”

Doer was charged with making false statements against a fellow officer. The LAPD decided to fire him in September 2008 for lying about the incident and he was formally terminated in February 2009.

Before his death, Doer wrote an online manifesto on his Facebook page, threatening to harm police officials and their families. Part of what Doer wrote dealt with his accusations of alleged excessive force by Evans.

Her lawsuit maintains she was harassed by LAPD supervisors due to the “racial tension sparked by Doer” and because of her complaints that she was being discriminated against because of her race.

The suit states she was denied overtime and transferred from a prestigious assignment to one with less stature. Evans says her ability to ea a promotion was “completely destroyed” in the aftermath of Doer’s claims.

“Because (Evans) was a Caucasian, she was subjected to adverse employment actions by the department as a result of the allegations made against her by Doer,” the suit states. “This despite the fact that he was terminated for his own misconduct which had no coection to plaintiff.”

Evans claims the LAPD knew about past misconduct by Doer while working for the department. The officer accidentally shot himself in the hand, assaulted a classmate during LAPD training, lied about being in military combat and failed the department’s psychological exam, her suit alleges.