I'm with you.
Just break down doors and shoot folks inside their own home in cold blood with a woman and child in the house, or shoot a guy multiple times in the back as he exits a big box store. Things are a lot less complicated that way./s
The main thing those two incidents have in common? The videotape evidence was either "lost" to "malfunctioning" equipment (Costco shooting), or sealed by the authorities (helmet cam video of the actual Guerena shooting).
I put the Guerena situation squarely on the sheriff. I don’t blame SWAT at all, because they only reacted with the information they had.
The sheriff should have known that the patterns of Guerena were not the sort of patterns that needed heavy gunfire. He was a family man, worked 12 hour shifts and there were no traffic patterns, at the man’s home that indicated that he kept serious amounts of drugs there or weapons.
Two guys in armor could have knocked on the door and served the warrant and the premises could have been searched in a peaceful manner.
The sheriff needs to go, IMO.