Posted on 05/21/2011 3:46:06 PM PDT by Qbert
TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - Guerena family attorney Christopher Scileppi said he's working with a dead Marine's honor, and a family's grief. He wants to see proof to back up attorney Mike Storie's account of the SWAT raid that left Jose Guerena dead.
Storie held a news conference Thursday and released several new details about the May 5 raid at the Guerena house that have been kept private until now. He detailed why SWAT was serving a search warrant and what they found, and gave a reason for why paramedics waiting at the scene were not allowed inside the house to treat Guerena after he was shot. Storie told KGUN9 that a SWAT robot was sent into the home to examine the threat level, and by then, it was too late for Guerena. Scileppi has continued to argue that Guerena thought he was defending his home from an invasion when SWAT broke down his door.
"The SWAT team has lawyered up and all Mr. Storie, their lawyer, did today was attempt to discredit a Marine who served two tours abroad and put out statements unsupported by facts," Scileppi told KGUN9 News. Now he's calling for Storie and Sheriff Clarence Dupnik to release the reports and documents about the raid.
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Scileppi disputed Storie's account that Guerena ducked or fell into a room where SWAT couldn't see him and be sure he was no longer a threat, and that's why they didn't order medical care for him. Scileppi says blood stains in the house make it look like Guerena went down in the hall where SWAT could see him easily.
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Unasema Kiswahili?
I was speaking of it in the context of his ability to still move. If you have no blood pressure you’re not moving and most likely not conscious.
Kiswahili yangu ni mbaya. Mungu awabariki. Tuta onana.
I did a stint in the Comoros as part of a Civil Affairs team last year. Although they don’t really speak Kiswahili in the Comoros, it’s more of a swahili-arabic mix, I like the language (swahili).
Where do you work?
Mimi sijui Kiswahili, kidogo sana.
“Wapi choo?”
“Coca-cola moja, barafu mingi.”
“Wapi ni barabara qua Kitale?”
“Bwana Asifiwe”
and stuff like that. Most of the folks we worked with spoke less Swahili that I did, so I didn’t have a lot of motivation to learn it.
Right now I keep the living room couch from blowing away.
I used to live in Kenya & Uganda, with work trips to Mali, Malawi, Sudan, Somalia, Tanzania & South Africa.
I occasionally make trips back to teach villagers to hand-drill water wells. Also in Central America, Haiti and have done so in India & Vietnam.
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