Posted on 05/17/2011 10:28:58 AM PDT by petitfour
TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN9-TV) – 9-1-1 recordings from a deadly SWAT shooting reveal some tense moments:
911: Is law enforcement at your house, ma'am? Is law enforcement at your house? (Are they) inside or outside your residence?
Guerena: They are outside, but they came inside! They were inside. They were (inaudible) going to shoot me. And, I put my kid in front of me. They were going to hit me!
911: Ok, I need you to calm down.
Fear and panic from the wife of decorated Marine Jose Guerena's. Vanessa Guerena called 9-1-1 the morning of May 5th, the day SWAT busted through her family's front door; unloading 71-rounds the Marine's way, in just 7-seconds.
SWAT said it did not expect Jose's wife and young son to be home. But, it also did not expect the Marine to point a semi-automatic weapon their way; saying, according to authorities, "I've got something for you!"
Moments later, the 26-year-old Marine was gasping for his last breaths of air
911: Where's he ...where's your husband at right now?
Guerena: He's on the floor!
911: Is he inside the house?
Guerena: Yes, he's on the floor! (crying) Can you please hurry up?! Somebody...
911: It's very hard for me to understand you, ok. When you get hysterical, ok?
Guerena: Can you please send somebody, please?
Help did arrive; and, reports show a Lifeline helicopter was put on standby. But, a KGUN9 investigation uncovered it took an hour-and-fourteen-minutes before SWAT let paramedics work on Guerena.
At one point, you even hear 9-1-1 operators asking wife Vanessa to provide CPR to her own husband:
Guerena: I can't. I can't. I can't do that. There's a bunch of people outside of my house. I don't know what the heck is happening.
(Excerpt) Read more at kgun9.com ...
There is a tight lid on this simply due to the fact that citizens, suspected of non-violent crimes, are having their homes invaded by civilian paramilitary troops and are now being treated like hold up, mass murdering, extremely dangerous foreign terrorist.
My assertion is that there are two sides to every story and justice takes time.
Well stated. I wish there would be a push to eliminate SWAT teams. They are not compatible with a free people. If SWAT exists, there will be a natural inclination to use them more and more. It is sickening how our Republic is being turned into a third world sewer.
This Marine was murdered by these evil subhuman thugs. Whoever ordered this action should be charged with 1st degree murder.
I am puzzled by 2 statements that this wife and mother makes:
She states that she thought the police were going to shoot her, so she put her kid in front of her.
When the 911 operator tells her to perform CPR she says she can’t because there are people outside her home.
You can thank a judge for this Marine’s death. It should be the judge mainly who is held responsible and accountable for his state imposed murder.
Justice takes time?
Tens of millions of illegal aliens thank you for that bit of humor.
excellent point! the police also initially said he fired at them. later, they admitted he hadn’t, and they even admitted the SAFETY was still on his rifle.
...so, their claim he pointed the rifle and them and said corny words, is... questionable.
The police also claimed they announced with sirens, etc.
but, clearly his wife never heard them. and a neighbor said there were no sirens, etc.
...the wife said she saw a man outside with a gun, and woke up her Iraqi vet husband, who had recently returned from a 12 shift in a mining company. He put them safely in a closet. I don’t think there is ANY reason to believe he thought it was police. ...and if he did, they still shot him, with his safety off, and let him bleed to death over 1:14. A Marine who only moved in there 2 months before, when they purchased the house.
I have nothing but admiration for that Marine, and his restraint. and my Father, with the Mesa Police, would have been one of the first to speak up against the SWAT team letting that Vet bleed to death!
I knew since the beginning of these tactics that the impossible ‘war on drugs’ would be a highway to a police state. Its been a while, but sometimes I think I had less fear and more respect for cops back in the USSR. Our rights are being taken away on a daily basis.
F the jackbooted thugs and all of their supporters. May the chains rest heavily upon you
Yes it takes time but also the light of day. The sealing of the records smells of a coverup. Every thing should be out in the open or else justice will not happen.
Unleash the catch phrase or Fire the weapon.
I think that phrase come from Al Pacino in the movie Scarface. That makes it even more suspect. Also as a trained combat Marine his instinct is to identify danger and fire. His instinct is not to play Al Pacino.
I think this is going to be a murder trial before it is over.
Dead men tell no tales
But begs the question:
If this guy who was apparently suspected of a non-violent crime, but was treated like a mass murdering foreign terrorist, was there video tape from the heavily armed entry team, like in the Bin Laden raid?
Perhaps there were no warrants. This guy was an inconvenience to someone.
If you were falsely accused of a sex crime against a child I don’t think you would want your fate to depend on the knee jerk reaction of the average person, and the vultures in the media.
There was no mistake after the initial mistake of having a SWAT. After that decision the rest is inevitable and will continue to deteriorate until the SWATs become the government in local jurisdictions then in larger ones. They can take out unpliable local pols, too. That move had a practice run in New Jersey a little while ago but they only shot the mayor’s dog. More of it is coming. These things evolve only in one direction.
“I’ve got something for you!” That’s a cool line for a crime and punishment show on TV.
Yeah, a murder trial. The wife will be charged with felony murder on some invented claim that she abetted the marine’s felony, whatever they decide that to be. The child probably won’t be charged as an adult, though.
Justice takes time?
Tens of millions of illegal aliens thank you for that bit of humor.
If you were falsely accused of a sex crime against a child I don’t think you would want your fate to depend on the knee jerk reaction of the average person, and the vultures in the media.
It's likely the only person who could have accused them of anything is dead.
Who exactly establishes their fate, and determines if a crime was committed? Would that be the court or DA, who are connected to, generally support and work closely with the police?
AKA Drug War Whores.
Which is interesting, considering it was his wife who spotted them outside the window - they were looking in - and alerted her husband. That should have been enough for them to re-think their tactics.
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