Oh, and the Torrance police, who shot and rammed the second truck, are attempting to bury the incident under a Guinness record pile of bullshit:

David Perdue was on his way to sneak in some surfing before work Thursday morning when police flagged him down. They asked who he was and where he was headed, then sent him on his way.

Seconds later, Perdue’s attorney said, a Torrance police cruiser slammed into his pickup and officers opened fire; none of the bullets struck Perdue.

His pickup, police later explained, matched the description of the one belonging to Christopher Jordan Dorner — the ex-cop who has evaded authorities after allegedly killing three and wounding two more. But the pickups were different makes and colors. And Perdue looks nothing like Dorner: He’s several inches shorter and about a hundred pounds lighter. And Perdue is white; Dorner is black.

But wait, it gets better:

According to the Beach Reporter, the 2006 Honda pickup involved in the second shooting was registered to Redondo Beach resident Lizzette Perdue. She would not speak with reporter Larry Altman about the truck’s involvement.

In an email advisory sent Thursday morning, authorities described Dorner’s vehicle as a dark gray Nissan Titan with a ski rack on top of the vehicle. The truck was later found burning in Big Bear.

Torrance police originally indicated that the second shooting was unrelated to the Dorner investigation.

Fucking awesome or what. At first they deny that the incident was in any way related to the hunt for Dorner, then watch next they try to blame the poor guy for their T-boning and shooting at him. Why? Because they thought he was Dorner. Back to the first article:

A department spokesman said Saturday that the shooting is still under investigation. In a statement to The Times, the department said: “The circumstances of the incident known to the responding officers would have led a reasonable officer under normal circumstances — and these were far from normal circumstances — to believe that fellow officers were being shot at and that the vehicle traveling toward them posed a serious risk.

“In the split seconds available to them,” the statement continued, “action was appropriate to intervene and stop the actions of the driver of that vehicle.”

According to the police department, Perdue’s car was headed directly for one of their patrol vehicles and appeared not to be yielding. When the vehicles collided, Perdue’s air bag went off, blocking the view of the driver, and one officer fired three rounds.

Now, back to the second article:

Shortly after the women delivering papers were fired on, two Torrance police officers in a cruiser saw a truck that also looked to them like Dorner’s, according to a Torrance Police Department statement from Sgt. Chris Roosen. The officers were responding to a “shots fired” call when they noticed the truck “suddenly leaving” the area where the LAPD detectives had opened fire.

The squad car purposely collided with the black truck on Flagler Lane south of Beryl Street, “and an officer-involved shooting occurred,” according to the statement.

Isn’t that precious. Here’s a picture of Perdue’s truck, notice that there’s not a scratch of damage to the front. In fact it looks to have been PIT maneuvered from the drivers side rear quarter. That whole story about Perdue traveling towards the police, not yielding and colliding with them was just that, a story.