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SWAT raid fatal drama is revealed in 911 call
Arizona Daily Star ^ | 5/14/2011 | Fernanda Echavarri

Posted on 05/14/2011 7:04:25 AM PDT by petitfour

The wife of a Tucson man killed in a Pima County SWAT raid May 5 pleaded for five minutes with 911 dispatchers to send an ambulance for her mortally wounded husband, audio records show.

Often through tears and sometimes in broken English, Vanessa Guerena, tells 911 operators that her husband had been shot by a "bunch of people" who opened the door of their southwest-side home and "just shoot him." Meanwhile, dispatchers worked to determine if she was calling from a house where the SWAT team was serving a search warrant, audio released Friday by Drexel Heights Fire Department reveals. It takes about an hour for waiting medics to know what happened, and the man is dead before fire crews are allowed into the home.

Jose Guerena, 26, a former Marine, was sleeping after the graveyard shift at Asarco Mission mine about 9:30 a.m. when his wife woke him saying she heard noises outside and a man was at their window. Guerena told his wife to hide in a closet with their 4-year-old son, his wife has said. He grabbed an AR-15 rifle and moments later was slumped in the kitchen, mortally wounded from a hail of gunfire.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: 911; banglist; corruption; crushswat; cwiiping; donutwatch; dupnikland; endswatnow; fuswat; govtabuse; guerena; joseguerena; leo; militarizedpolice; paramilitary; paramilitarypolice; policemilitarization; policestate; rapeofliberty; swat; tucson; tyranny
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To: ChildOfThe60s

We are demanding police level restraint of soldiers in kill or be killed wars, and then jail them for being soldiers. We are allowing police to become soldiers, with authority to shoot first and ask questions later, to the detriment of society and the pile of innocent bodies they leave behind.


101 posted on 05/14/2011 5:02:43 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Travis McGee

No one goes to jail. If a private citizen did this they would be executed.


102 posted on 05/14/2011 5:03:08 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: rawhide

You’re breaking my heart, too...

Poor lady.


103 posted on 05/14/2011 5:10:21 PM PDT by Politicalmom (Herman Cain did NOT support TARP, and he did NOT say the Federal Reserve should not be audited.)
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To: driftdiver

I am upset not with all cops...I know some and they are great and I wouldn’t want their job.

HOWEVER.....THESE DRUG SWAT TEAMS HAVE GOT TO GO!!

this dammmmmm WOD has got to go!

I am just heartbroken about this story...it just enrages me and turns my stomach! these SWAT drug vigalentes have got to be stopped.And Bill Bennet will go on and on about how great the WAR on Drugs is and “Oh, well, that’s the price we pay.”
And for what???More money for the huge money making WOD??

Why are we putting up with this?


104 posted on 05/14/2011 5:12:29 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (where is the Great Santini when we need him??)
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To: CodeToad

The govt just calls them “mistakes.”

“Oops, your husband is dead. My bad. Later!”


105 posted on 05/14/2011 5:14:39 PM PDT by Travis McGee (Castigo Cay is on Kindle)
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To: driftdiver
This has been posted a few times already but each time there is new information, thank you. The cops on FR will show up and defend the actions of this swat team. They have said he deserved what he got.

Not true. There are a couple who have blindly supported the action, however there are more who have stated that this was wrong and foresaw this happening as a result of the militarization of the police. Blanket statements will alienate people and police who are patriots.
106 posted on 05/14/2011 5:15:40 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Time to beat the swords of government tyranny into the plowshares of freedom.)
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To: FoxPro

When the victim is dead, any story will do.


107 posted on 05/14/2011 5:16:30 PM PDT by Travis McGee (Castigo Cay is on Kindle)
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To: VeniVidiVici
Pima County Sheriff Dupnik had no problem in leaving Gerald Loughner alone long enough to shoot Gabrielle Giffords. Wonder what he considered important enough to go in with SWAT here?

I think you are the first to point this out. Worth repeating over and over. The rot is at the top.
108 posted on 05/14/2011 5:29:14 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Time to beat the swords of government tyranny into the plowshares of freedom.)
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To: PA Engineer

There are quite a few who have supported the actions in this case. It happens every time.

When cops start condemning actions such as this then I’ll listen to talk of patriots.


109 posted on 05/14/2011 5:32:27 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: SgtHooper
But please don’t paint all cops with such a broad brush.

You're right ... it's the rotten 99% that give the rest a bad name.

Considering your "tag line", you're one of the 99%.

110 posted on 05/14/2011 5:51:42 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Grunthor
Do we have to start banding together in citizen militias’ to protect our families and ourselves against these murderers with badges or is that kind of self defense talk considered over the top?

I think the name, address and photograph of each swat member should be widely posted on the internet.

111 posted on 05/14/2011 5:52:57 PM PDT by zeugma (The only thing in the social security trust fund is your children and grandchildren's sweat.)
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To: rawhide; Travis McGee; Squantos; B4Ranch
My question is why didn’t they just surround the house, get on a loudspeaker, and demand the occupants to come out with their hands on their heads, firing teargas as a last resort

Not even. Why didn't they do their homework and apprehend him as he drove into his driveway after his coal mine shift? Shades of Ruby Ridge and Waco. WTF, over.

112 posted on 05/14/2011 5:55:22 PM PDT by glock rocks (Wait, what?)
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To: Finny
...veteran was gunned down by LEO in front of a Costco?

I believe that was in Las Vegas.

113 posted on 05/14/2011 5:55:27 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: zeugma

One wonders how THEY would react to “no-knock, no-announce” raids.


114 posted on 05/14/2011 6:00:32 PM PDT by Grunthor (RIDE THE CAIN TRAIN!)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie
Are you speaking of William J. Bennett, the lying, gambling-addicted scumbag who was the main pusher of the War on Drugs?

History will scorn that man.

115 posted on 05/14/2011 6:02:28 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: Ken H

Yup...I listen to his radio show am on way to work cause he has some good guests..but he is getting so self serving its hard to listen to him.

I didn’t know he had a gambling problem and was the main pusher of the WOD. Yeesh.
I wonder how HE would have liked SWAT to come to HIS house on a gambling raid.


116 posted on 05/14/2011 6:30:53 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (where is the Great Santini when we need him??)
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To: Politicalmom

I feel along with you! You can just see the brokenness of her heart in her eyes and face. It will be a long time before she even begins to heal over this. And her kids, especially the one child that was at home, will always have nightmares over this.

I hope she receives tens of millions of dollars because of this. I for one, if on the jury, would award such a settlement, in fact I would demand it!

Her husband seemed to be one fine outstanding young man, husband, and father. A real contributor to our society!

God comfort this dear soul and her children. I cry for her in my heart.


117 posted on 05/14/2011 6:47:32 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: DuncanWaring
I believe that was in Las Vegas.

*Doh!*

Las Vegas, Phoenix, same dif! ;^)

(Thanks ... I needed that!)

118 posted on 05/14/2011 6:48:54 PM PDT by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
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To: Gandalf_The_Gray

Exactly what happened in Atlanta a few short years ago, where the Swat team murdered a precious dear old lady, becasue they went to the wrong house. And then they tried to cover it up by lying, and trying to get their snitch to lie for them. They are now in prison.


119 posted on 05/14/2011 6:51:24 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: Finny
Las Vegas, Phoenix Tucson, same dif! ;^)
120 posted on 05/14/2011 7:02:24 PM PDT by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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