Oh my god, this is the first one I read. Admittedly, I started skimming at a certain point & stopping on notable stuff. The Obama stuff was definitely NOT in there.

Actually, here's the original from the same site: http://hiphopandpolitics.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/fired-lapd-officer-shoots-3-fellow-cops-killing-one-releases-manifesto-exposing-corruption/

This one has no Obama, LGBT, or Cosby references.

I suppose it is possible that the first link had an edited version the cut out seemingly irrelevant parts.

It's possible.

That's from Feb 7th. We already have news sites with the full manifesto on the 6th.

Also, we have things like Anderson Cooper interviewing someone who is only mentioned in the full manifesto. The same full one online was mailed to Cooper.

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/07/dorners-friend-manifesto-is-shocking/

How would someone know these people and things about them if it was some hoax?

Also, why would someone make up all that personal stuff about friends and family etc etc if it was a hoax?

Well, I can't vouch for the integrity of Davey D's Hip Hop Corner.

There are blog posts that are trying to push the idea that, the one with the gun control bullshit is the original, but I'm going with you on this one. The same exact thing happened to the pastebin link I put on my facebook, came back later and all that bullshit was in there.

"never let a good crisis go to waste"

Ok, but why would they add all that fluff? I mean it's an awful lot of digging for intimate personal events just to pad the AWB part. You'd think time would be a factor but apparently a well equipped team whipped all those personal bits together in a matter of hours from the time of discovery to the time facebook shut the page down.

Not sure. I can only think of a few reasons (beyond the call for gun control).

• To fill the 11,000 word limit quoted earlier.
• To make him look deranged.
  
• To troll conspiracy theorists. (Make us look bad by continuing to question things.)

To make him look deranged

I gotta argue against this one.

In the short version he rants about the LAPD and ends it with making death threats. Supposedly this one doesn't make him look deranged.

The long version has him rant about the LAPD, make death threats, addresses people he admires and had impacted his life, gave his support for certain causes and admonished certain hate groups. Now he's deranged! He thinks homosexuals should have equal rights! Lock that deranged man up!

Perhaps deranged is not the the proper term. "Unfocused", "emotional", "nostalgic". When I read only the first section, he came across as focused with a purpose. When I read the second (besides suspecting tampering), I got the impressions I just mentioned.

EDIT: Changed the bold section from "is" to "is not".

Kinda like most manifestos. I mean a guy doesn't just sit down and pound one of these things out in 10 minutes. Given time and mood things would appear different.

Can someone who originally posts to pastebin log in again and change their original post? Is it possible dorner added personal details and thanks to freinds and opinions about more normal things to his pastebin when he realized it would be his last words and he wanted to just have a final say about a few more human things?

Good question. I dont know much about how facebook or pastebin work which was why i asked.

Nice work

Take the first half (the non-disputed half) and past it into www.wordcount.net. Then open up a new page and past the second half into www.wordcount.net. Note the word densities between the two sections.

First half:

• officers 48 (9%)
• xxxx 46 (9%)
• will 45 (8%)
• officer 40 (7%)
• lapd 37 (7%)
• me 36 (7%)
• xxxxx 27 (5%)
• bor 23 (4%)
• police 22 (4%)
• department 22 (4%)

Second half:

• me 40 (11%)
• will 33 (9%)
• never 23 (7%)
• always 17 (5%)
• time 14 (4%)
• president 14 (4%)
• know 13 (4%)
• like 12 (3%)
• should 12 (3%)
• get 12 (3%)

ctrl-f "sport"

If it locates any results, it is not the original.

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you seem generally intelligent

it's a surprise to see you offer this:

The best I can grok is that it was changed after a decent amount of eyes got on it to add another layer of 'conspiracy' so that the people who are first to get this kind of information out are tripped up with irrelevant questions.

When the work of some random asshole on the internet is a more likely culprit, given everything else you noticed

Yeah, but did you not get my point?