The meme-ing of Chris Dorner started oddly enough in real life, as photos of LA residents wearing "Not Chris Dorner Please Do Not Shoot" shirts went viral.
Alexander Abad-Santos of The Atlantic Wire described it as a "half-sarcastic, half-wake-up-call response to very serious mistakes by the police."
It didn't take long for the rest of the internet to spread the "meme-ification" of Chris Dorner's manhunt.
One of the most telling jokes of the manhunt was the "Good Guy Chris Dorner" meme, capturing the online sentiment that the LAPD was no better — or even worse — than Dorner.
By the end of the chase yesterday the internet's meme engine was in full-effect:
