Tucson SWAT Team Defends Shooting Iraq Vet 60 Times

[Hazcat]

by ELLEN TUMPOSKY
May 20, 2011

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.

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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.

Guerena grabbed his assault rifle and was pointing it at the SWAT team, which was trying to serve a narcotics search warrant as part of a multi-house drug crackdown, when the team broke down the door. At first the Pima County Sheriff's Office said that Guerena fired first, but on Wednesday officials backtracked and said he had not. "The safety was on and he could not fire," according to the sheriff's statement.

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http://abcnews.go.com/US/tucson-swat-team-defends-shooting-iraq-marine-veteran/story?id=13640112

More and video at link.

For those that don't remember the Pima County Sheriffs name is ....... Dupnik!  Yeah, that Dupnik!  Think the truth about this will ever come out?

BTW I read in another story on this that the raid was part of a multi-home operation.  NO ONE was arrested in ANY of the locations!

[fightingquaker13]

Note to Pima County residents, shoot first, don't give a warning. The police sure as hell don't, and you may as well make it pricy for them. 
FQ13

[Ichiban]

Isn't Pima county part of the state that wants to secede from Arizona?  It sound like a typical blue state mentality - "Don't question us, we are the authorities."

[Hazcat]

Here are more stories on this

http://azstarnet.com/news/local/crime/article_54486592-8257-11e0-950b-001cc4c002e0.html

http://www.kold.com/story/14664249/copy-authorities-wont-release-info-on-tucson-shooting

Qfficial statement from Pima Sheriff http://www.kgun9.com/story/14670430/pima-co-sheriff-blasts-media-questions-about-swat-shooting

[Solus]

Another Drug War Success Story.

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[fightingquaker13]

Might be a good bill board to put up across the street from the SO. Him in his dress blues, "Another drug war sucess story. You must be Proud". A bit cold, but they deserveit for not letting the medics in.
FQ13

[Rastus]

Another Drug War Success Story.

Sure enough.

..............Guerena grabbed his assault rifle and was pointing it at the SWAT team, which was trying to serve a narcotics search warrant as part of a multi-house drug crackdown, when the team broke down the door. ....
...............Pima County Sheriffs name is ....... Dupnik!  Yeah, that Dupnik!  Think the truth about this will ever come out?
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So did they try knocking on the door and announcing who they were first.....or just bust down the door and expect them to believe they were the police?  Dupnik....yeah, the name says it all....lying dog opportunist destroyer of free speech comes to mind.

[philw]

how can they defend this

I would like to know more about the incident,

so who would be investigating it,  the sheriff's department??

[Ichiban]

I'm sure that the sheriff will be able to somehow tie this to irresponsible right wing rhetoric.

I wonder if it was his call to deny medical attention (apparently none of the 60 rounds were immediately fatal) for over an hour.

[Timothy]

Simpleton
Warriors
And
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Para-Military operations in our cities is getting out of hand and another reason I live in the sticks......