Investigation reportedly clears LAPD in Christopher Dorner's firing

An Associated Press story, citing civil rights lawyer Connie Rice, says that the former officer's 2009 dismissal was found to be appropriate and that his allegations of corruption were unfounded.

Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck is shown outside LAPD headquarters. The department has reportedly concluded the 2009 dismissal of former officer Christopher Dorner was appropriate and that his allegations of corruption prior to a deadly rampage earlier this year were unfounded. (Christina House / For the Los Angeles Times / January 14, 2012)

In the months since Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck launched a review of Christopher Dorner's firing and his allegations of racism and corruption in the department, police officials have remained silent on their findings.

The much-anticipated report, Beck said repeatedly, would be made public when it was completed sometime later this month.

That carefully laid plan was upended Tuesday by an Associated Press report that the department had concluded that Dorner's firing was appropriate and his claims of corruption unfounded.

The report attributed the expected but nonetheless notable findings to Connie Rice, a well-known civil rights attorney who, according to the report, was allowed by the LAPD to review the lengthy report and hundreds of pages of background material.

After he was fired in 2009 for falsely accusing his partner of kicking a handcuffed mentally ill man, Dorner resurfaced in February, bent on seeking revenge for his ouster.

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