Posted on 11/28/2006 10:43:36 AM PST by SmithL
The district attorney's office will not file charges against 11 police officers involved in the fatal shooting of a toddler during a gunbattle with her father last year.
Nineteen-month-old Suzie Pena was being used as a human shield by her father, District Attorney Steve Cooley said in memo made public Tuesday.
Relying on a review of the scene and reports gathered by the police department, prosecutors found the SWAT officers were trying to defend themselves and others when they accidentally killed the child, Cooley said.
The father, Jose Raul Pena, exchanged gunfire with police during the hours-long July 2005 standoff before he was fatally shot.
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Now there is a real man! <./sarcasm off>
Sad case. Glad the POS (father)was killed.
...."Nineteen-month-old Suzie Pena was being used as a human shield by her father"....
This guy wins 'Father of the Year' honors!
It is Pena himself who should be charged with his daughter's murder, not the swat team.
Muslim Hispanic?
The initial reports had SWAT firing blindly through the office wall with full knowledge the girl was inside. I haven't heard that repeated since the incident occurred.
...."Nineteen-month-old Suzie Pena was being used as a human shield by her father"....
This is a sad story and the mother is now sueing the police and us the tax-payers because the father used the girl as a human shield while he was shooting at police.
http://michellemalkin.com/immigration/2005/07/17/02:33.pm
Jose Raul Pena, an illegal Salvadoran previously deported for cocaine possession....
During the incident, Pena used a 9-millimeter Beretta pistol which had been stolen last year in a burglary in Oregon. His office at the car dealership contained a bag of cocaine and a half-drunk bottle of Tequila—consistent with the illegal Pena’s previous deportation for cocaine possession.
Videotape captured images of Pena shooting at the police while holding his daughter, yet his relatives are questioning not only whether he used his daughter as a shield, but whether he was even armed at all, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Nightly anti-cop protests at the shooting site have grown so violent that community activists have asked the public to stay away. On July 14, protesters surrounded an officer making a routine traffic stop and began threatening him. He escaped, but the police needed to call a tactical alert for the second night in a row, reports the Times.
Can we counter sue her for having a child with such a piece of crap?
Realize the other children she has are now citizens, and she and her litigation happy, protesting relatives will all be given amnesty and get to bring in the rest of the clan!
"Nineteen-month-old Suzie Pena was being used as a human shield by her father,..."
Was her father a member of Hamas? Why is Isreal "indicted" by the press for doing precisely what the police did in this story?
Was he a Muslim? /s
I bet this gets headlines in The Los Angeles Times.
(/sarc)
Thank you for the data. This was a real POS.
Yes, he was. I wonder if he was MS-13.
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