Family of Marine Killed in Arizona SWAT Raid Sues Pima County for $20 Million

Forbes.com ^ | August 17, 2011 | E. D. Kain

[Immerito]

Jose Guerena was killed by a Pima County SWAT team back in May. His wife, Vanessa, and 4-year-old son were in the home at the time but were fortunately unharmed when police fired dozens of bullets into the home. Guerena himself did not fire on police, but police reported he was holding a rifle when they broke the door down. Follow-up investigations have shown that Guerena was related to people likely involved in criminal activity, but Guerena himself appears to have been on the sidelines.

Now Vanessa Guerena is filing suit against Pima County to the tune of $20 million dollars.

Radley Balko follows up with a good summary of the case, the political fall-out, and the interesting detail that nobody has yet been arrested in the Pima investigations, including Jose Guerena’s brother, Alejandro, who appears to have been a much more likely suspect than Jose.

[Vendome]

Guess I could have wrote:

LOL

You two/too crack me up.

[ZX12R]

You Freaks are an excellent example of how Rush says that Liberals should always be encouraged to keep talking, so as to prove how stupid they are.

If you weren't the most predictable jerk and poster on FR, you probably wouldn't get so much grief and attention.

[starlifter]

Thanks.

As always, you raise the level of conversation.

Cheers.

[Digger]

She deserves every nickle. The cops deserve to be hanged.

Darn right.

[FormerACLUmember]

Pima County is a cesspool of democrat party corruption, starting that evil excuse for a Sheriff.

[count-your-change]

A civil suit should be much easier to prove than a criminal charge. There's no chance a judge will let the family collect 20 mil or anything close but 5 or 6 mil would help ease the financial worries.

[Finny]

I pray that this lawsuit is successful and that the sheriff is fired.

Yes, and that the guys who did the shooting do jail time.

[rawhide]

Good!

We the jury find the sheriff’s office guilty of murder! We hereby award the plaintiff’s the $20 million dollars they requested, along with another $30 million dollars for punitive damages. And we the jury order via the citizen arrest procedures, we order that the AZ FBI, arrest of all member of this swat hit team, charging each for murder!

[Ratman83]

You are a complete putz. I include you with a curtesy ping in resposnse to Venturer, as is proper, and you come back with a comment of If you say so?

So I show you the info and source and you want to call me a Freak.

Take you brown nose out of your anal orifice and smell the roses. You are a clueless boot licker.

[rawhide]

Jose and Vanessa Guerena and family.

[rawhide]

[rawhide]

I do not why I think this way, but I have always wondered if these thugs are taking orders from the cartels in Mexico??

[Dead Corpse]

Murder used to have consequences too...

Looks like Law enforcement has an exemption these days.

[Dead Corpse]

Obviously a hardened drug cartel member. If it wasn't for the infant he's using as a shield, he'd be flashing gang signs...

/Thick Blue Wall apologist

[Lazamataz]

Then this is another bad day for you.

This is a GREAT day! I had yet another chance to subtly mock you. ALWAYS a joy. :)

[OneWingedShark]

>>Hey, some copsucking available for you over here.

LOL — Thanks; man, I needed a laugh today.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Maybe it would matter if you weren’t such a demented fool?

I’d rather you keep your insane infatuation on me, with your oft repeated homosexual “copsucker” reference, than to be harassing a person who is a soft touch and actually might be affected by your mental drivel.

Tiil next time, I pity you as always. It’s not like you are ever going to kiss a girl and relieve your pent up sexual frustrations, is it?

[Bon mots]

Every thug cop involved in this brazen murder of an innocent man in front of his family should serve hard time and never wear a badge nor carry a gun again.

[luvbach1]

Those thugs don’t have 20 million.

You're undoubtedly right about that. But they should not escape financially unscathed.

[Lazamataz]

Infatuation? Pure mockery and disdain for a person -- my mockery and disdain for you, for example -- is infatuation?

Get thee to a dictionary! LOL

And you are a copsucker. Can't help it if you are, it's what you do. Fish gonna swim; birds gonna fly; Berlin_Freeper gonna copsuck ("Copsucking" defined, of course, as being willing to defend police actions -- no matter how brutal, unjust, illegal, or over the top).