Medical care blocked for Marine Veteran killed by SWAT - update

KGUN9-TV ^ | May 11, 2011 | KGUN9-TV

[WaterBoard]

TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - 9 On Your Side has uncovered startling new information in the case of a man SWAT team members killed Thursday.

Medical attention was standing by to try to save Jose Guereña.

Paramedics waited more than an hour.

Then deputies sent them away

By then Guereña was dead.

[WaterBoard]

Family of man killed in SWAT raid hires attorney

TUCSON, AZ (KOLD) - A Pima County judge has sealed court documents on the drug conspiracy investigation that led to last Thursday's deadly SWAT raid at a southwest side home.

The family has now hired an attorney, who's asking for records including radio communications, police logs and 911 recordings from that day.

"One of the first and foremost things in Jose's wife's mind is to clear his name with the community, and with his own children," said Christopher Scileppi, attorney for the Guerena family.

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[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Pima County is going to pay out the nose for this travesty.

[org.whodat]

When are enough people going to say stop this damn jack booted SWAT crap.

[ninonitti]

This is impossible......why the Pima County Swat Team has their own Tactical Emergency Medical Support Team.....says right here on their exploding webpage.

[WaterBoard]

Review of Pima County SWAT’s actions.

1) Attacked a house with a child inside. Most SWAT don’t do this.
2) Refused to provide a copy of the search warrant to the public.
3) Changed the story on why they fired 71 rounds into a home on a residential street.
4) Refused to allow EMS examine or treat the man they shot.
5) Requested a judge seal the court records that led to the raid.
6) To date, no one single person has been arrested as a result of the drug conspiracy raid. Where is the evidence that this raid was necessary in the first place?

[ninonitti]

Links are your friend Nitti

http://pimasheriff.org/about-us/organization-charts/operations-bureau/support-operations-division/tactical-response-section/s-w-a-t/

[jwparkerjr]

re: pay out the nose for this travesty

As well they should if it’s shown protocol and procedures weren’t followed throughout the raid. These raids are fraught with opportunity of abuse and errors. The only thing that makes them acceptable should be a certainty on the part of the citizenry that there ARE rules, procedure and protocols AND they have been followed.

Sadly the very people who investigate apparent lapses in judgment, protocol, procedures, etc. are the ones who have the most to lose if they weren’t followed. Jurisdictions tend to seize power and use it as they see fit, forcing those injured by abuse of the power to jump through all sorts of hoops to gain redress.

[GlockThe Vote]

Bump.

[Big_Harry]

Coming soon to a neighborhood near you... unless we all get righteously indignant over these escalating abuses of power and authority and do something!

[arthurus]

Of course they held off until they knew he was dead. There are fewer legal complications that way and their version of the action gets no challenge.

[absolootezer0]

This is impossible......why the Pima County Swat Team has their own Tactical Emergency Medical Support Team.....says right here on their exploding webpage.

Tactical Emergency Medical Support Team.. to render aid in case f friendly fire?

[arthurus]

The man’s problem may have been he did not have a dog for the SWAT to shoot.

[KarlInOhio]

Shoot SWAT, shovel and shut-up.

[Pontiac]

Someone in this country needs to do a statistical study comparing innocents shot by CCL holders and SWAT Teams.

My guess is that SWAT Teams kill more innocents than CCL holders.

If you factor in Drug Taskforce Teams with the SWAT Teams I would bet my paycheck that LEOs shoot far more innocents than CCL holders.

[sport]

Dead men tell no tales. As far as his wife and son talking, well, they can and will discredit her.And besides that, whose story are you going to believe? A lying cop hater or the dedicated heroes that happen to be public servants who just filled her husband full of lead for....living.And besides, if she gets too mouthy, we will trump up a few charges on her. His orphan child? He is too young to understand what happened.

They murdered that poor man, just like the West
Point guy at Cosco. And not only will they get away with it, they will be declared heroes and receive promotions.

[DivineMomentsOfTruth]

Some facts are missing here.. It doesn’t explain why the SWAT team thought it was too dangerous to get the man and take him to the hospital. It doesn’t make sense.. According to the story, they were already in the house.

[6SJ7]

SWAT teams have moved the police from the “Sheriff Andy Taylor” model, where police had allegiance to the public, to the “Pretorian Guard” model where allegiance is to the government and their union. Public be damned.

[sport]

They are not. Hell, read the posts to these threads on this forum,far too many,feel that the cops were heroes and the poor guy got what he deserved.

Couple the above with the election of obama and the election of politicans who promise the sheep that if they will vote them into political office, not only will they wipe their butt when they have to take a crap, they will also pull their pants down for them also,and if you value the Constitution of the United States,you will quickly realize that you are a member of a very small minority in the U.S.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Another disturbing element is that “officer safety” is now considered more important than “public safety.” I saw a story posted here last week in which a defensive-sounding police chief admitted as much.

[org.whodat]

That is what some call a sucker bet. SWAT is nothing more than a bunch of little penis cowards playing military. They need to draft all their asses into the army and send them to Afghanistan and see how long they last.