Iraq war vet and father of two shot 71 times in own HOME by SWAT team

DailyMail.co.uk ^ | May 21 2011 | Daily Mail Reporter

[Celtic Cross]

Full title; 'Government killed one of their own': Iraq war vet and father of two shot 71 times in own HOME by SWAT team

Terrible story.

[HushTX]

She told a 9-11 operator: 'They were... going to shoot me. And I put my kid in front of me', according to ABC. Wait, what? Who puts a kid in FRONT of them when shots are being fired?

[Grunthor]

Murder. Flat out murder.

[Jim Scott]

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.

[Celtic Cross]

Yep. Shot 71 times 71 times! They wouldn't let an ambulence come, they claimed they were being fired on and then retracted the statement, they refuse to confirm whether anything illegal was found. Sounds like they're really circling the wagons too.

Murder plain and brutal.

[darkwing104]

The Pima County Sheriff's Office declines to say whether any drugs were found in the house, claiming the investigation is ongoing.

Translation: How are we going to cover this up...

[trisham]

This is horrible.

[Brilliant]

If they would control the borders, there would be no need for ANY shootout on the US side of the border.

[Celtic Cross]

Sounds like.

[Celtic Cross]

Too busy riddling marines in their own homes to deal with that border.

[SkyDancer]

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)

[freedombird]

Happy Armed Forces Day!

-Big Brother

[GlockThe Vote]

99 percent give the 1 percent a bad name.

[Mr. Mojo]

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.

[FourPeas]

In a statement, the sheriff's office criticized those questioning the team, saying, 'It is unacceptable and irresponsible to couch those questions with implications of secrecy and a coverup, not to mention questioning the legality of actions that could not have been taken without the approval of an impartial judge'.

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?

[FourPeas]

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?).

[righttackle44]

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

[FourPeas]

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.

[SkyDancer]

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.

[ScottinVA]

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?