Translation: How are we going to cover this up...
Posted on 05/21/2011 12:31:26 PM PDT by Celtic Cross
Jose Guerena, 26,survived two tours of duty in Iraq as a marine, only to be gunned down in a hail of 71 bullets in his own Tucson, Arizona home, while his wife and four-year old son hid in a nearby closet. Mr Guerena's wife, Vanessa, said she heard her husband moaning as he lay dying, his body struck by 60 of the bullets.
Ms Guerena told ABC News: 'I saw his stomach, all the blood on the floor'
She said her goal now is to 'clear his good name'. Ms Guerena said their son Joel keeps asking about his deceased father, 'Is he a bad guy?' The Tucson SWAT team responsible for the May 5 house shooting defends its actions, saying the team was conducting a multi-house drug investigation based on a search warrant when they saw Mr Guerena aiming an assault rifle at them. At first, the SWAT team had said Mr Guerena fired first, but then they retracted that statement, saying he had left the safety on.
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Terrible story.
Murder. Flat out murder.
Without knowing what actually happened and whether the victim had an assault rifle and pointed it the SWAT team officers, I find this story very disturbing. 71 shots? At one man? This seems like a very undisciplined team that overreacted and are covering up their actions with bluster and ‘righteous indignation’ that anything a SWAT team does is somehow above question. Yet the questions remain. Were any drugs actually found in the home? Why did one man need 60 bullets in his body to ‘take him down’? This may be all legal and proper but it looks bad from here. An investigation - not a ‘witch hunt’ - is mandatory.
Murder plain and brutal.
Translation: How are we going to cover this up...
This is horrible.
If they would control the borders, there would be no need for ANY shootout on the US side of the border.
Sounds like.
Too busy riddling marines in their own homes to deal with that border.
The more you read about cops the more you become afraid of them. I had one pull me over for no apparent reason; he just started chatting me up - it was scary. (when I was in the US)
Happy Armed Forces Day!
-Big Brother
99 percent give the 1 percent a bad name.
First the military wannabes retract their statement claiming the Marine fired first, then they declined to say whether or not they found any drugs in the house. Smells awfully bad.
Huh? Questioning the actions of LEOs when someone is killed is unacceptable if couched in implications of secrecy & coverup? That's not part of the press and citizen's right and duty to make sure our peace officers are indeed that?
That struck me, too. The only reasonable explanation I can think of it was part of her shouting that she had a baby (in her arms?).
That sheriff is Clarence Dupnik, the same guy who took to the
news podiums of Tucson at the time of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. He truly hates conservative people and especially Republicans. The man runs a gang of bandits and not a real sheriff’s department. The man is a thug and bandit, and not a real sheriff. He is the prototype of a Southern KKK-supported chief of police, though the Klan doesn’t exist in Tucson. The Democrats of the county are very like the Klan
Ah, it’s Dupnik’s county; that makes much more sense. I’m sure blame will shortly be placed on Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, and Fox News.
Really a shame. But how many do those 1% represent? Hundreds? Thousands? I like(d) watching COPS. Those are the good guys - unless of course it’s because they’re on camera.
So I wonder how readily the Pinal Co. sheriff will run to the cameras on this incident, vs the Giffords shooting. Is this the fault of the TEA Party, too?
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