Posted on 05/16/2011 4:49:07 PM PDT by petitfour
TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - They are the best of the best responding to the worst situation in Tucson. Let's put it this way, when Police call 91-1 they get S.W.A.T. Little is known about the team members that make up Special Weapons and Tactics. They are the highly skilled and specially trained to handle every and any emergency.
David Ortiz, a Medic with S.W.A.T. says," The goal for the S.W.A.T. Team really is to save lives."
Before you sit side by side with the most elite part of the Tucson Police force on you to way to resolve a high risk situation, you start at the beginning, in training.
Detective Norm Scheopner with the Sex Offender Registration Tracking, says "You can never get enough training."
Patrick Nottingham, a member of S.W.A.T. explains some of the rigorous training. "Weightlifting and running of towers, changing the type of weight to get 50 refs and moving."
From the training room to the Tower. Running across the training compound the climbing six flights of stairs and back down again for more strength training.
Sgt. Robert Callan of S.W.A.T. says, "You gotta have a lot of determination. You gotta stick with it because once you go through the testing process and you get on the team it doesn't stop there it's just the beginning."
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They had a medic with them when they shot that Marine and let him bleed out?
A bunch of low IQ idiots. That is the true and only definition of SWAT.
...carrying on the centuries-old family tradition of heavy-handed, abusive law enforcement. Perhaps he'll run for sheriff when Dupnik's time is over.
I prefer the Mayberry RFD type of policing. Give Barney a bullet and make him carry it in his pocket.
Hahahaha; gotta love the superfatted prose. Pure bunkum, of course.
They obviously don't do much training in fire control if they had to fire 71 rounds at a suspect that didn't fire at all.
They obviously do a lot of training in lying, because as the facts are coming out they're initial accounts are false.
Wow. Just WOW.
Yes. Luckily, there was not a dod around or the round count would have been much higher.
Oops. Dog, not dod.
This is a story on the Tucson P.D. SWAT...not Pima Co. Sheriff SWAT (Dim bulb Sheriff Dupnik). Not sure why this got posted unless OP has some interest in their local Tucson SWAT team.
Tucson, we have a problem. This is a story of a SWAT team out of control. They are more concerned with how tough they are and how well they are trained for violent action, than they are concerned about respecting the rights of citizens. Serving a warrant is not an assault up Pointe du Hoc, its a legal process that must recognize that those being served are presumed to be innocent and have a right to expect their home to be a safe haven. No doubt police may have to use force in enforcing the law, but that is a last resort, when people have clearly demonstrated resistance.
The Tucson SWAT team should be held criminally and civilly liable for their actions that resulted in the death of an innocent man protecting his family. Instead, we get this cover up nonsense from both LEOs and from their willing accomplices in the media. I wonder if all of this has anything to do with the left wing Sheriff of Pima County who was ready to convict the Tea Party of attempted murder of Congressman Gifford?
Propaganda machine racheting up a notch for the murdering jackboot thugs... ping.
Either that or they caught the reporter with a baggie of pot.
In another thread, dealing with Dominique Strauss-Kahn's arrest and arraignment for (allegedly) raping a hotel maid, one commentor questioned the veracity of the victims's complaint. One of the replies to him, from DesertRhino, said:
...in my experience, men who are actually the most lethal of all, exhibit an easy grace about their personal skills... They manage to be mature enough to understand that most people are not nearly as strong as they are. They even realize that protecting those weaker types, is the very reason why the warriors exist.It occurred to me that a lot of the complainers about too-agressive police have this standard in the back of their minds.
I was trying to figure out what dod was. :)
The wife is lucky she was on with 911.
When yer a hammer, every problem is a nail.
I spent 25 years as an infantry officer and led men in combat. I understand the importance of the warrior ethos and warrior spirit. But that ethos and spirit must be held in check to ensure that its force is only used against a legitimate enemy. When that restraint is lost, soldiers become criminals and leaders must protect both the soldiers and the innocents from that scenario.
That constraint is even more important in the civil sphere. The powers granted to the police must never be abused and their duty to protect the public must stand paramount. I have seen too much evidence that some of our law enforcement officers have forgotten this, especially in SWAT type organizations who may lack proper leadership.
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