Posted on 05/31/2011 6:10:34 AM PDT by marktwain
TUCSON, Ariz. – The death of a former Marine near Tucson continues to stir controversy.
A group spent this Memorial Day protesting the SWAT raid which led to his death. Investigation documents reveal officers seized guns, banking documents and other items from the home but did not find drugs or cash.
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They may have followed protocol. The question is whether the protocol was illegal or wrong.
Sounds like a Lawsuit waiting to happen. The widow needs to be in contact with a lawyer.
Or was it another mistaken address due to a dispatcher who can't speak clearly?????
Good thing they killed him. He had guns and banking documents.
A group spent this Memorial Day protesting the SWAT raid which led to his death. Investigation documents reveal officers seized guns, banking documents and other items from the home but did not find drugs or cash.
- Obtain search warrant (even if only a relative of the real suspects)
- Call out amateur SWAT team with dubious rules of engagement.
- Approach home at night.
- Alert residents of dubious characters casing the joint.
- Wait for residents to get to guns
- Knock, wait 4 seconds, blast door.
- Enter while tripping.
- See resident with gun
- Squeeze off 70 rounds (+ 1 breaching round)
- Withdraw
- Wait until resident has bled out
- Blame resident for his own death
- Receive commendations
My goodness, he’s lucky he didn’t build a brick wall around his lot ~ they’d called it a COMPOUND!
Everybody should read the critiques of the raid based on the helmet cam video by a former SWAT cop.
This was the Keystone Kommandos, bungling and stumbling their way into this fatal fiasco.
If/when it goes to court, SWAT experts are going to solidly condemn this Tucson cluster foxtrot.
Mark!
Actually, they omitted the jewelery and cash they found and took from the report. But the good news is, they found everything they planted.
“Approach home at night.”
I thought it was around 9:30 AM, after he got home from a 12 hour night shift.
Protocol? Raid?
They barely entered, and started shooting.
The other point not covered to date was: Given that there were 4 houses more or less simultaneously (protected and) served and this house was most likely the one of least interest, there would have been four SWAT teams with this one most likely being The D Team.
SWAT officers have stated that they were briefed that he was THE “bad guy “ that very morning.
As sad as it is, it seems his was the “A” team.
“If/when it goes to court, SWAT experts are going to solidly condemn this Tucson cluster foxtrot.”
I sure as Hell hope so. Those criminals need to go to prison.
So were there SWAT teams at the other locations?
So, why didn’t they arrest him as he went to or left from work...
“So, why didn’t they arrest him as he went to or left from work...”
As I’ve posted many times, I think they should have served the search warrant on the wife while he was at work. No SWAT required. But I guess the logistics of four simultaneous house raids may have made that difficult.
They should have the sheriff serve the warrant after knocking on the door and waiting for the occupant to answer.
“Putting on the big boy pants and doing your job” must be considered too scary.
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