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Arizona SWAT Team Cleared in Former Marine's Killing
ABC News ^ | June 14, 2011 | DEAN SCHABNER

Posted on 06/14/2011 7:47:24 PM PDT by sigzero

The SWAT team that gunned down a former Marine in his Tucson, Ariz., home was cleared today of any wrongdoing in the incident.

Jose Guerena, 26, was killed in a hail of bullets from the SWAT team, which broke down the door to his home on May 5 while trying to serve a search warrant as part of a home invasion probe.

Guerena did not fire a single shot in the incident, but Pima County Chief Criminal Deputy Attorney David Berkman said in the report issued today that the five SWAT team members were justified in using deadly force because the former Marine pointed his weapon at them.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: banglist; bloodoftyrants; govtabuse; guerena; leo; militarizedpolice; paramilitary; policestate; rapeofliberty; swat; swatabuse; unions
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1 posted on 06/14/2011 7:47:25 PM PDT by sigzero
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To: sigzero

Cops clearing cops of wrongdoing. Wow, didn’t see that one coming.


2 posted on 06/14/2011 7:50:00 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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http://ppjg.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/safe_state.jpg

Prayers for this Marineand his his family. This is Americas loss

When will enough, be enough?

4 posted on 06/14/2011 7:51:28 PM PDT by KC_Lion (If Sarah can't be elected in 2012, then Phase II will fall into place, may G-D have mercy on us all)
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To: KC_Lion

There will never be “enough.” This is a progressvce development and only goes in one direction.


5 posted on 06/14/2011 7:54:41 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
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To: sigzero

ABC News was convicted today of a lack of journalistic integrity. This comes on their previous 50 years of lying to the American people and any other country where they broadcast. Sentencing awaits.


6 posted on 06/14/2011 7:54:44 PM PDT by TwoSwords (The Lord is a man of war, Exodus 15:3)
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To: sigzero
five SWAT team members were justified in using deadly force because the former Marine pointed his weapon at them.

So, because the five swat team members pointed several guns at Guerena, he would have been justified in shooting at them, correct? Anyone can yell police and bust down a door. Under U.S. law, a man's home is his castle.

8 posted on 06/14/2011 7:58:11 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: sigzero

So the cops come to kick your door down in the middle of the night, you don’t know they are cops, you pick up your gun like every american gun owner would, and the cops now have the right to shoot you in your own home 61 times, even thou you never fire a shot?
Thugs with uniforms on. No different than street gangs, just better armed and trained.


9 posted on 06/14/2011 7:58:15 PM PDT by Robbin (If Sarah isnÂ’t welcome, IÂ’m not welcome, itÂ’s just that simpleÂ…)
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To: KC_Lion

Excellent question.

After suffering through the Waco hearing whitewash, I have not faith this “fast and furious” hearing show will be any different, yet some on here call me cynical.

I guess they were just kids back in the 90’s.

Our government had that whole decade to stop the disease of corruption at the federal level and it was an epic failure.

And that was with a republican congress.


10 posted on 06/14/2011 8:01:13 PM PDT by MikeSteelBe ( "Failure to speak out against evil is evil itself" - Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
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To: sigzero

History always repeats itself, so we probably should start doing a little research to see how resistance fighters coped with the Gestapo during World War II. It would probably also be beneficial to establish an historic time line for determining the interval between killing citizens in the home and the nightly disappearances of suspected resistance members.


11 posted on 06/14/2011 8:01:32 PM PDT by Big_Harry ( Starve the Beast!)
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A close examination of the AR-15 rifle Guerena was holding at the time he was shot revealed that the bullet damage was done at an angle that indicated Guerena was pointing it at the officers, Berkman wrote in the letter.

Above is the most important quote in the article.

12 posted on 06/14/2011 8:01:32 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: sigzero
Pima County Chief Criminal Deputy Attorney David Berkman said in the report issued today that the five SWAT team members were justified in using deadly force because the former Marine pointed his weapon at them.

Did he? Or did the 'boys in blue' say that he did? I'd like to see proof of that.

And really, why was a SWAT team sent out in the first place? Was someone's life in immediate danger?

13 posted on 06/14/2011 8:01:47 PM PDT by meyer (We will not sit down and shut up.)
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To: sigzero
Get a rope.
14 posted on 06/14/2011 8:02:25 PM PDT by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
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To: Robbin
Place IEDs outside your home and fire first, as you are going down anyway.

Build one of these:


15 posted on 06/14/2011 8:02:33 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: sigzero

Obama’s army. He promised it!


16 posted on 06/14/2011 8:02:38 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: sigzero
I'd like to nominate the SQUAT team for this year's Lon Horiuchi award.
17 posted on 06/14/2011 8:03:12 PM PDT by Darteaus94025
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To: sigzero

Welcome to the USSR....

Or any other communist country.


18 posted on 06/14/2011 8:04:45 PM PDT by lephantom
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To: sigzero

Welcome to the USSR....

Or any other communist country.


19 posted on 06/14/2011 8:04:55 PM PDT by lephantom
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To: Lurker
Cops clearing cops of wrongdoing. Wow, didn’t see that one coming.

Is Pima County Chief Criminal Deputy Attorney David Berkman a cop?

20 posted on 06/14/2011 8:06:25 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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