Posted on 05/27/2011 12:29:33 AM PDT by petitfour
The Pima County Sheriff's Department released video, audio, and more than 500 pages of incident reports and interview transcripts related to the May 5 shooting death of a former Marine.
The shooting took place while officers were serving a warrant in a drug conspiracy case at Jose Guerena's home, on Redwater Street.
The SWAT team arrived at the home just before 9:30 a.m., hoping that children would be out of the house and at school at that time.
The video of the whole incident times out at 1 minute and 17 seconds.
It starts with a team of SWAT officers driving up to the Guerena home.
It appears to be peaceful and quiet, but in transcripts officers stated they were on high alert, after being told the suspect they were about to encounter could be armed, and that they were heading to a home where the residents may be linked to home invasions, drug deals and possibly murder.
When they get to the scene they quickly take up their positions.
In an audio recording provided to KOLD News 13 by the Sheriff's Department, you can hear SWAT officers knocking on the front door and announcing who they are at least three times. They do this in both English and Spanish.
(Excerpt) Read more at kold.com ...
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cowards.
Wonder how many crapped their pants or pissed themselves?
You are so rights, bunch of COWARDS...
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A scope. There is no way that anyone caught up in the drug trade or gang hits/home invasions is going to grab a rifle with a scope to defend his wife and child.
What I'm saying is that folks mixed-up with gangs, drugs, etc., have weapons of choice at the ready in case of home invasions and an AR-15 WITH A SCOPE IS NOT ONE OF THEM!!
I woke up in the morning thinking about this senseless act of murder. We could all see it coming. These last couple of years we were concerned about the increased deaths of people and their dogs. Now, the courts are saying it’s fine to enter illegally and you aren’t suppose to do a thing about it. Never mind that they shoot if you even grab for a phone. Unless, we vote in an EXTREME RIGHT WING
president and congress we have no one to blame but ourselves. Look at what the last presidents have gotten away with...illegal wars, homeland terror and so forth.
So they didn’t find any drugs? No home invasion evidence? Still no word on the other houses they raided? What a bunch of trigger happy clowns.
Go to the www.azstarnet.com page and read the latest story. PCSO did a document dump, and the Daily Star seems to be scrambling to put out as much as possible as quickly as possible.
It appears that Jose Guerena’s brother is in the Pima County jail at the moment. A wad ($92K) of was found at his house and a bag of marijuana. There is reference to relatives of someone (brother’s wife) being killed in a home invasion in March of last year. Don’t know how that case connects to this one.
The judiciary has gone off the rails. What judge issues a warrant for an assault team to descend on a family of young children?
Thanks. I’ll have to check that out later after I get some shuteye.
You know, actual police work rather than acting like a Guatemalan Death Squad.
12 hour night shifts not 12 night shifts. (one per day is enough, lol)
So who was the informant in here. They deserve at least half of the blame here. And if none of the charges pan out, a murder rap as well.
Next this previously released statements is blatantly FALSE: "This was not a "no knock" warrant. We come in very high profile with lights and sirens. We go to the door. We pound on the door. We wait 15 seconds, and, then, we breach the door with a heavy tool and open the door," explained O'Connor.
If one times the total from the knock by one of the Jack-Booted thug to the actual breaching of the door, it is but a few (maybe 5-6 seconds)
Last but not least (and it will be interesting if we ever get to see the entire video, with sound what was said when the 1st Swat A-Hole stuck his head in the door, like maybe what SHOULD be said, like "Police, drop your weapon?")and when the 1st shot was fired, but it appears to be but only a heartbeat or 2.
These trigger-happy, wannabe, cowboys, then pile on and one is seen like a baby pup/kitten trying to wiggle his way between the other morons so he could get his shots in.
All in all, a very unprofessional, unwaranted, needless, "Execution" of a private citizen, regardless of what crimes he was accused of having committed.
As someone else commented, a couple of cops could have grabbed this suspect when he exited from work at the mine and then went to search his house.
There is absolutely NO need (or excuse) for this travesty to have occurred and hope that sooner, rather than later, there will be a backlash against ALL SWAT Teams and they will be reined in before they start losing lives as people shoot first when encountering these type raids.
Where is the sanctimonious ACLU? Commies love the Police State in action.
This is not police work.
This is an execution of a citizen, a combat veteran of our armed forces, by a rogue police team of trigger-happy goons.
A man roused from dead tired sleep and preparing to defend his home from invaders unknown did nothing wrong. The dead man’s weaponm had the safety on, showing fire discipline.
Fired until his weapon ran dry? This man needs to be up on charges, not wearing a badge.
The residents of Arizona and Tucson need to correct this injustice.
We have three significant problems. First, the judge who issued the search warrant (as in almost all of these stupid cases where a SWAT team is sent) ought to be personally held responsible....ought to be forced to attend each search himself....and be held responsible for irrational actions of the search he authorized. Second, the SWAT guys have free reign as the system works currently. I would suggest a simple bond having to be required and posted prior to visiting the judge to request the warrant....say $5 million. You, as the police, screw the warrant up and affect innocent people....they automatically get their hands on that bond money immediately, and still have the right to sue for regular damages. The bond would come out of the city budget and go up and down in cost depending how how things go. Finally, the third issue is simply timing of events...night or evening raids. I think each town could run up the votes and demand that only daylight operations be conducted so that no one (especially the cops) could be confused about what they see.
If you look around....no one is trying regulate any of their SWAT teams. They’ve simply allowed them to do just about anything they desire. If you hold political figures responsible and start terminating them at the office...then SWAT would start to dissolve. There was a need in the 1960s with radical groups in LA and Philly for SWAT to be created. The fact that towns with 40k residents now have SWAT teams....ought to worry about the necessity of such tactics in small-town America.
Excellent commentary. The Elian Gonzalez assault paved the way for this kind of violence directed against citizens.
That event and Waco and Ruby Ridge all green-lighted the militarization of the police with the Feds leading the way.
This is a disturbing and dangerous trend that isn’t on people’s radars because they’re not anti-communist Cubans, religious separatists or government separatists.
Yet, they’re coming for you. When will people get it?
NO cheers, unfortunately.
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