Posted on 05/15/2011 12:11:08 PM PDT by petitfour
This week, KGUN9 News reporter Joel Waldman interviewed Pima Co. Sheriff's Department Lt. Michael O'Connor about the shooting of Jose Guerena, who died last week when a SWAT team tried to serve a search warrant at his Tucson home. The victim's wife Vanessa has stated that neither she nor her husband knew that the people breaking into her home were deputies. She said that her husband, who pointed a rifle at deputies, was only trying to defend himself. Guarena never got off a shot. But SWAT team members fired a total of at least 71 rounds, leaving the home riddled with holes. Ms. Guerena was hiding in a closet at the time with one of the couple's children. Neither was hurt.
A clip of raw video from that interview is presented in the Video Gallery at left. Below are selected quotes from the interview.
O'Connor: "This case involves a narcotics conspiracy case, which means that we are looking for a lot of different narcotics related material. That can be drug ledgers, scales, anything that would be in furtherance of this narcotics conspiracy. And it involved all four residents that we were looking at in that quarter mile of so of each other."
(Excerpt) Read more at kgun9.com ...
Is this the raid way back on 5 May 2011?????
Sure glad I don't live in the Fascists county known as Pima.
Yes, this is from the May 5 raid. They have still not released the search warrant. The wife should have a copy, but they sealed the warrants after the fact. I say warrants because they had search warrants for other houses within 1/2 mile of the victim’s home. I don’t know what other houses were searched. (they searched two houses without warrants—I don’t know if those are included in the four mentioned by O’Connor in this video interview. the two I’m talking about were searched to make sure there were no casualties due to the approximately 71 shots fired into a man who was hit by 60 of those shots. But where they were shooting is a straight hallway from the front door to the back wall of the house. I would expect some bullets to have gone through the house. At least one neighbor said her house had been totally gone through and that it felt like an invasion of privacy though it was justified by SWAT that they had to make sure no one was injured.)
They probably found a single joint.
Yeah, I believe that some drug dealer works graveyard shift in the mines. /s
Pima? Oh, wait a minute. Isn’t that the county with Sheriff Dupnick or whatever his name is? You know, the moron who claimed right wing rhetoric god Congresswoman Gifford shot?
I meant “got” not “god” .
Or a bathroom scale.
They aren’t that stupid.
They found a kitchen scale. :)
Gee, they got to shoot at someone and apparently were unable to contain themselves or maintain any semblence of operational control.
Such pathetic incompetent thugs should not be playing urban warrior.
I have small scales. I have cash on hand. Does that make me a criminal in the eyes of the law???
We have lost so much in the country and few seem to recognize it.
If a mistake was made, owning up to it and the correcting procedures that led to it (if any) would gain the more respect than alibis.
Bookmark
And don’t forget they held up EMT’s for an hour and 14 minutes..the guy bled to death.
I only wish I were on the jury for this. Every leo on this would be walking to the gallows
The victim Jose Guerena was a former U.S. Marine. He was protecting his wife and child from what he thought was a home invasion.
Vanessa Guerena is the widow of Jose Guerena. She said her and her husband did not know that the men breaking into her home were SWAT officers.
I watched the video. If nothing else, the police lied about the victim firing the first shot.
This story makes me sick.
So who is Sheriff Dipstick going to blame this time around? Probably George Bush.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.