Posted on 05/20/2011 5:55:31 PM PDT by Graneros
A Tucson, Ariz., SWAT team defends shooting an Iraq War veteran 60 times during a drug raid, although it declines to say whether it found any drugs in the house and has had to retract its claim that the veteran shot first.
And the Pima County sheriff scolded the media for "questioning the legality" of the shooting.
Jose Guerena, 26, died the morning of May 5. He was asleep in his Tucson home after working a night shift at the Asarco copper mine when his wife, Vanessa, saw the armed SWAT team outside her youngest son's bedroom window.
"She saw a man pointing at her with a gun," said Reyna Ortiz, 29, a relative who is caring for Vanessa and her children. Ortiz said Vanessa Guerena yelled, "Don't shoot! I have a baby!"
Vanessa Guerena thought the gunman might be part of a home invasion -- especially because two members of her sister-in-law's family, Cynthia and Manny Orozco, were killed last year in their Tucson home, her lawyer, Chris Scileppi, said. She shouted for her husband in the next room, and he woke up and told his wife to hide in the closet with the child, Joel, 4.
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60/71 isn’t all that bad for cop shooting. /sarc
Better than the 7/71 I first read. So now I don’t believe either.
Police state ping. Roaming assassination squads. Leftist union cops out of control.
How many of them are Taliban and al Qaeda sympathizers?
He survived Iraq to have armed thugs masquerading as “police” gun him down.
I’ll bet they all get promotions.
I guess Deputy Dawg Dipstik was right when he called Tucson the “mecca for racism and bigotry”.
Awful, gooberment running amok...
Maybe Jared had a "job" ~ with the sheriff!
Someone with better access to the other cases might be able to come up with some sort of connection between them and the Giffords shooting.
Was it directed at the judge perhaps?
“No there isnt. And this joke of a Sheriff and his SWAT goons should start paying a Henry Bowman type price for it.”
When the worm turns it will be horrific. There’s a lot of pent up anger out there and it’s a shame because this country COULD have been a paradise.
SWAT teams now have their own lawyers?
God help us.
i think it started out as accidental shooting or improper shooting and to cover it up, they had to make sure the person was dead so shot him a few more times
From the same human debris who couldn't run his mouth fast enough after the Giffords shooting by a lunatic well known to him.
So does that mean 30 Jack booted thugs double tapped this war hero?
This Sheriff murders Americans but will not arrest Illegal Aliens.
It’s just a dead civilian, you act like he was important, like he was a deputy or a police dog.
Let them finish sweeping this unpleasantness under the rug and we can all sleep better knowing the swat angels are watching us through their nightvision rifle scopes as we sleep. Dynamic entry teams poised at the ready to save us from ourselves without warning or mercy.
All these fake wars, on drugs, on terror, are only to terrorize, maim, and murder Americans. This is a prime example.
It appears that, lately, there have been a lot of derelicts given weapons and badges.
What freaks!
Everyone from the intel to the sheriff and the guys who offed this war hero need.....
Gawd, what does one say?
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