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.
In both of the cases I cited, the shootings were done in the interest of "officer safety". As it turns out, the danger to the officers involved was questionable, at best.
Then, mysteriously, the video evidence in both cases is unavailable for bogus reasons.
Officer safety should always be a concern, but it should never trump a citizen's right to move about freely on their own property if they are not acting in a threatening manner. Furthermore, given that the "official" video records have a strange habit of disappearing when the actions of the police are questionable, I hope more folks make a habit of recording evidence that the authorities cannot simply "lose", or "seal" from public scrutiny.
So who do you blame for preventing emergency medical treatment and allowing him to bleed to death?