Police to probe firing of fugitive US cop killer

US: Los Angeles police Saturday said they would reopen a probe that led to the dismissal of a fugitive ex-policeman being sought in the killings of three people for what he believed was his unfair firing.

Police are hunting the snow-blanketed California mountains for Christopher Dorner, a 33-year-old disgruntled former LA Police Department (LAPD) officer who had threatened to murder police in a chilling online manifesto.

“I have directed our professional Standards and my Special Assistant for Constitutional Policy to completely review the Dorner complaint of 2007, to include a re-examination of all evidence and a re-interview of witnesses,” police chief Charlie Beck said in a statement.

AFP