SWAT team fired 71 shots in raid (former Marine who served in Iraq twice)

[AlabamaLibrul]

The Pima County Regional SWAT team fired 71 shots in seven seconds at a Tucson man they say pointed a gun at officers serving a search warrant at his home.

Jose Guerena, 26, a former Marine who served in Iraq twice, was holding an AR-15 rifle when he was killed, but he never fired a shot, the Sheriff's Department said Monday after initially saying he had fired on officers during last week's raid. (emphasis mine)

<...> Vanessa Guerena says she heard noise outside their home about 9 a.m. Thursday and woke her husband who had just gone to bed after working a 12-hour shift at the Asarco Mine, she said. There were no sirens or shouts of "police," she said.<...>

When five SWAT members broke through the front door Guerena was crouched down pointing the gun at them, said O'Connor.

http://azstarnet.com/news/local/crime/article_d7d979d4-f4fb-5603-af76-0bef206f8301.html

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I'll leave out the commentary except to say that this is very sad, and the bolded part seems to be very popular these days.

[MattBaggins]

1. They have their asses covered.

I will bet what they "recovered" from his home was empty boxes; but will later turn out to be millions of tons of heroin.

[juajen]

2. Gestapo tactics prevail all too often in our country of late. Sad.

[nosmokes]

3. Fucking pigs. Can we all agree the militarization of our police has gone

entirely too far?

[AlabamaLibrul]

4. I think you'd be surprised (or not) nt