Posted on 05/23/2011 4:37:47 AM PDT by marktwain
A Tucson, Ariz., SWAT team defends shooting an Iraq War veteran 60 times during a drug raid, although it declines to say whether it found any drugs in the house and has had to retract its claim that the veteran shot first.
And the Pima County sheriff scolded the media for "questioning the legality" of the shooting.
Jose Guerena, 26, died the morning of May 5. He was asleep in his Tucson home after working a night shift at the Asarco copper mine when his wife, Vanessa, saw the armed SWAT team outside her youngest son's bedroom window.
"She saw a man pointing at her with a gun," said Reyna Ortiz, 29, a relative who is caring for Vanessa and her children. Ortiz said Vanessa Guerena yelled, "Don't shoot! I have a baby!"
Vanessa Guerena thought the gunman might be part of a home invasion -- especially because two members of her sister-in-law's family, Cynthia and Manny Orozco, were killed last year in their Tucson home, her lawyer, Chris Scileppi, said. She shouted for her husband in the next room, and he woke up and told his wife to hide in the closet with the child, Joel, 4.
SWAT officers fired at least 71 shots at suspect Jose Guerena, a former U.S. Marine, and a family struggles to put the pieces together.
Guerena grabbed his assault rifle and was pointing it at the SWAT team, which was trying to serve a narcotics search warrant as part of a multi-house drug crackdown, when the team broke down the door. At first the Pima County Sheriff's Office said that Guerena fired first, but on Wednesday officials backtracked and said he had not. "The safety was on and he could not fire," according to the sheriff's statement.
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Relax, it’s just another isolated incident.
Of course he did...
First story: The dead guy fired at the cops as they entered.
Second story: The dead guy uttered a macho, "I've got something for you!" as the cops entered, but failed to get off a shot before they killed him.
Third story: "The safety was on and he could not fire"
The story changes, but the conclusion remains the same: They were justified in shooting him 60 times.
First they murder him, then they murder his character. They are truly, not that they care, despicable characters. Not a decent human atom in the bunch.
Why go after criminal illegal aliens who rape and murder
Americans, or al Qaeda coming over the border
... when you can murder innocent
Iraq War veterans? How Obama and DNC is that?
How many bullets were spent shooting Sonny Corleone?
The war on drugs has to go.
An Iraqi war veteran? Then Dupa should go the whole lefty route and say that he was a war criminal. Then Dupa would get the support of Jodie Evans and Medea Benjamin.
Whatever these people knew or didn’t know, they knew that they were not dealing with a major bad guy loaded to the gills with guns.
Two guys, in armor, with a warrant and a knock on the door would have been all that was required to properly take care of this situation.
SWAT officers fired at least 71 shots at police murder victim Jose Guerena, a former U.S. Marine...
Fixed it for ya...
Words have meaning, and Stalinist creeps like Dupnik know it.
Dupnik needs to fall off a curb while discussing this incident with a Marine drill sergeant.
Why do we tolerate this sh!t?
That one is coming. they just haven’t got to it yet.
“I would want to see the warrant and the probable cause for no knock raids on multiple houses”
WHY???
“a right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence,”
The war on drugs isn’t the problem. It’s the military warfare against U.S. citizens that’s the problems.
The military spends more than 5 minutes around a box of doughnuts planning their missions and ensuring intel is accurate.
Every.
Last.
Member.
AND THE SHERIFF
Should be dead.
“The safety was on and he could not fire,”
Obviously I don’t know all the details of this case. But if Guerena’s intent had been to shoot, it seems unlikely that a Marine who had served a combat tour in Iraq would make the mistake of leaving the safety on, y’know?
Coming to a house near you, one day soon. Our Government is out of control on many levels.
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