SWAT team fired 71 shots in raid

Swills · May 14, 2011

**UPDATE**
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Attorney demands answers in fatal SWAT shooting case

Raw video: wife of suspect killed in SWAT raid speaks out

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It's time we tell the police they are wrong and they must now answer to the American people. Being a vet of the armed forces myself, this story infuriates me!!!!

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SWAT team fired 71 shots in raid

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.
Six days after Guerena was shot, few details about the investigation that brought the SWAT team to the southwest-side home Guerena shared with his wife and their two young sons are known. Guerena's role in the narcotics investigation is unclear and deputies would not comment on what was seized from his home.
Three other homes within a quarter of a mile from Guerena's house, were served search warrants related to the investigation that morning. The addresses and the names of people who live in the other homes have not been made public.
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.
Guerena told his wife and son to hide inside a closet and he grabbed the AR-15 rifle, his wife said.
The department says SWAT members were clear when identifying themselves while entering the home.
"Tucson is notorious for home invasions and we didn't want to look like that," said Lt. Michael O'Connor of the Pima County Sheriff's Department. "We went lights and sirens and we absolutely did not do a 'no-knock' warrant."
When five SWAT members broke through the front door Guerena was crouched down pointing the gun at them, said O'Connor.
"The suspect said, 'I've got something for you,' when he saw them," O'Connor said. Guerena's wife denied he said that.
Deputies began shooting.
A deputy's bullet struck the side of the doorway, causing chips of wood to fall on his shield. That prompted some members of the team to think the deputy had been shot, O'Connor said.
The Sheriff's Department put in a call to Drexel Heights fire at 9:43 a.m. requesting assistance with a shooting. But crews were told to hold off.
Guerena was dead by the time they were allowed in the house, fire officials said.
Vanessa Guerena vividly remembers seeing her wounded husband.
"When I came out the officers dragged me through the kitchen and took me outside, and that's when I saw him laying there gasping for air," Vanessa Guerena said. "I kept begging the officers to call an ambulance that maybe he could make it and that my baby was still inside."
The little boy soon after walked out of the closet on his own. SWAT members took him outside to be with his mother.
"I never imagined I would lose him like that, he was badly injured but I never thought he could be killed by police after he served his country," Vanessa Guerena said.
The family's 5-year-old son was at school that morning and deputies say they thought Guerena's wife and his other child would also be gone when they entered the home.
Guerena says there were no drugs in their house.
Deputies said they seized a "large sum of money from another house" that morning. But they refused to say from which of the homes searched that morning they found narcotics, drug ledgers or drug paraphernalia. Court documents showing what was being sought and was found have not been made public. A computer check on Guerena revealed a couple of traffic tickets and no criminal history.
Guerena was a Tucson native and Flowing Wells High School graduate. He joined the U.S. Marines in 2002. He served two tours in Iraq in 2003 and 2005 as part of the Yuma-based MWSS-173 under direct supervision of Master Sgt. Leo Verdugo.
Verdugo was with Guerena's family Tuesday afternoon. He gave them a Marine Corps jacket and gloves to use at Guerena's burial.
"He was an excellent Marine, with a bright future ahead of him," Verdugo said.
"We had just bought a home and he was working graveyard shifts and overtime just to help pay the bills, we were just starting to make this house our home," Vanessa Guerena said.
"I know I can't have him back but I want justice. I want explanations for what happened," she said.
Contact reporter Fernanda Echavarri at fechavarri@azstarnet.com or 573-4224.
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SWAT raid fatal drama is revealed in 911 call

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.

For about five minutes after Guerena was shot, his wife stays on the phone trying to explain what happened and asking for an ambulance.

More than a week later, few details about the investigation that brought the SWAT team to the home Guerena shared with his wife and their two young sons are known. Details of the search warrant have not been made public and deputies would not comment on what was seized from the home.

The Pima County Sheriff's Department has provided no details about the investigation that prompted the raid and little information about the moments leading up to 71 gunshots being fired at Guerena, whose gun had the safety on. He was shot 60 times, doctors told the family. Initially the Sheriff's Department said Guerena fired at officers, but they retracted that this week. Drexel Heights provided audio of the 911 calls after the Star filed a public records request.

Vanessa Guerena, 27, continuously asks the operator to "please, please" send somebody to help her husband in a call in which she seems desperate, frustrated and panicked and says she could hear people talking outside.

About a minute into the 911 call a dispatcher who says she is with the Sheriff's Department comes on and asks if the SWAT team was at her house. Guerena sounds confused, and says her husband isn't talking to her anymore. She then talks over two operators who are trying to figure out if the house in the 7100 block of South Redwater Drive is among those targeted to be searched that morning as part of an investigation.

The operator asks again if there were law enforcement officers at her house and Guerena says yes, that they're outside. She then adds that they had come inside earlier, shot her husband and pointed a "big ol' gun" at her. She grabbed her son and worried she would be shot.

"Please send me an ambulance and you can ask more questions later, please!"

Guerena tells the dispatcher that her husband had returned home about 6:30 a.m. after work and was sleeping.

Prompted by the dispatcher, Guerena says her husband was shot in the stomach and hands.

The dispatcher asks Guerena to put her cheek next to her husband's nose and mouth to see if he's breathing, but she replies in Spanish that her husband is face- down.

The operator tells Guerena to grab a cloth and apply pressure to his wounds, but the wife responds frantically: "I can't! I can't! There's a bunch of people outside of my house. I don't know what the heck is happening!"

A dispatcher asks if the people outside are the SWAT members. "I think it's the SWAT, but they ... Oh my God!" Guerena says.

A dispatcher asks that she open the door for the SWAT, but Guerena replies that the door was already opened by police.

"Is anybody coming? Is anybody coming?" she asks.

The operator tells Guerena help is on the way, but they're still trying to figure out what happened.

"I don't know, that's it, whatever I told you, that's it," Guerena says.

Just after the five-minute mark, Guerena's end of the line goes silent.

The two dispatchers spend about four minutes talking to each other and calling out for Guerena while trying to figure out if the call is coming from the same residence where the warrant was served. At the end of the 10-minute 911 call, a dispatcher says she has confirmation that Guerena is outside with deputies on the scene.

Other audio records Drexel Heights released to the Star Friday indicate the agency dispatched a medical unit at 9:43 a.m. but was told by the Sheriff's Department to hold off.

Dispatchers said there were several addresses where the SWAT team was going that morning and they were not sure if this house was one of them, the audio shows.

The Sheriff's Department dispatcher said she had not received any requests for medical help from deputies on scene. Drexel Heights fire dispatcher asked: "You don't want us going in, right?" The sheriff's operator then said: "I don't know what is going on. You guys go ahead and hold off until we know what it's going to be."

The Sheriff's Department operator said people at the scene wanted the medical help to stay back because they might be dealing with a "barricaded subject."

Three other homes within a quarter mile of the Guerena house were served search warrants that morning as part of the sheriff's investigation. The addresses and the names of people who live in the homes have not been made public. However, the Sheriff's Department has said they found drugs and money.

Guerena was a Tucson native and Flowing Wells High School graduate. He joined the Marines in 2002. He served two tours in Iraq in 2003 and 2005 as part of the Yuma-based MWSS-173.
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Raw video: Sheriff's Office interview on fatal SWAT raid - KGUN9 On Your Side, Tucson News, Weather & Sports

This week, KGUN9 News reporter Joel Waldman interviewed Pima Co. Sheriff's Department Lt. Michael O'Connor about the shooting of Jose Guerena, who died last week when a SWAT team tried to serve a search warrant at his Tucson home. The victim's wife Vanessa has stated that neither she nor her husband knew that the people breaking into her home were deputies. She said that her husband, who pointed a rifle at deputies, was only trying to defend himself. Guarena never got off a shot. But SWAT team members fired a total of at least 71 rounds, leaving the home riddled with holes. Ms. Guerena was hiding in a closet at the time with one of the couple's children. Neither was hurt.

A clip of raw video from that interview is presented in the Video Gallery at left. Below are selected quotes from the interview.

O'Connor: "This case involves a narcotics conspiracy case, which means that we are looking for a lot of different narcotics related material. That can be drug ledgers, scales, anything that would be in furtherance of this narcotics conspiracy. And it involved all four residents that we were looking at in that quarter mile of so of each other."

O'Connor: "We did find things that we were asking for in that. It may have been drug ledgers, narcotics paraphernalia, any other connecting material between the residences. Those things were found, in addition to a large sum of money. Somewhat larger that what you would expect to find in anyone's home."

Waldman: "Can you say if that was the residence where the shooting happened?"

O'Connor: "No, it was one of the four, but it was not that residence."

Waldman: "In that specific residence, did you find anything related to drugs, drug money, in that specific residence."

O'Connor: "We found information that was pertinent to this drug conspiracy case, yes. I'm not going to go into details on what those things were. But it was connecting material to the drug conspiracy."

O'Connor: "As many of you might know, Tucson is somewhat notorious for home invasions. Sometimes home invasions look a lot like a narcotics search warrant. That's what the key to these things is. We want to make sure we re not looking like any other home invaders. The way that we keep that from happening is that we will have a lot police vehicles there, with their lights and their sirens on. In this case, the SWAT team was serving, because it was a narcotics high risk type of a search warrant, so we had our large armored vehicle there with the markings on it. It also has lights and sirens, it was going. So we do everything we can to portray the image that we are law enforcement, we are not home invaders. Because these people are involved in narcotics conspiracy cases, they are used to seeing other people get home invaded, so we want to do everything we can to keep that from happening."

Waldman: "There were some reports out there that this was I guess what some law enforcement would call a no-knock entry. Did you announce yourselves as law enforcement officers?"

O'Connor: "Absolutely. Those are very specific cases when it's a no-knock warrant. This was not a no-knock warrant. This case was, we came in very high profile, lights and sirens. We go to the door, we pound on the door. We wait approximately 15 seconds. If no one answers the door, we breach the door with a heavy tool and open the door. As soon as we opened the door, we were confronted with an individual that was in a crouched position, pointing at them with an AR 15 military assault rifle, and saying -- I'm gonna quote what he said -- 'I've got something for you.' Then they engaged this individual who was pointing the weapon at them."

Waldman: "So it's your, it's the Pima County Sheriff's Department position, that this individual who was shot and killed was well aware of who he was targeting?"

O'Connor: "Well, I'm not going to begin to think what was going through his mind. What I can tell you is what precipitated this. And that was, law enforcement in uniform responding to the scene in marked police cars, with marked police cars not only with their lights going, but also with their sirens going. And then not just one, but several of those. So I can't explain what was going through his mind when this happened. What I can tell you is what we did to make this as safe a situation as we could."

O'Connor: "It appears that it was 71 rounds were fired."

Waldman: "Someone on the street might perceive that as excessive force. In your opinion as a law enforcement officer, was it?"

O'Connor: "No, it's not, for a couple of reasons. One, this was an operation being conducted by SWAT members. They have special weapons when they're doing this. Also, where this occurred: There were five officers at the door beginning to make entry into this home, when they engaged this individual that they believed was actually firing at them. They're going to fire until that threat is no longer. And in this case, they fired those rounds in approximately seven seconds. So, it may sound like it's a high number. But when you have five officers firing semi-automatic weapons, that can be done in less than seven seconds, and that's what happened in this case."

O'Connor: "Part of what was going on is that this house, the interior of this house is, the walls are somewhat darker color. The roof is painted a very dark color. So when the officers came in, they saw they were confronted with a very dark room. This individual was in a hallway looking right at them, crouched with a weapon. When they saw this and the weapon coming up and he made that statement, some of the officers began to fire that are in this cone -- right at the front door -- began to fire. Some of the officers hit the door frame and there was splintering at the door frame as they were firing. This was falling on some of the other officers. One of the officers has a shield, and when he fired, he starts to fall backwards. Some of the officers thought that officer had been shot, and were starting to drag him out of the fray. So this was a very dynamic scene, a very dangerous situation for the officers that were there, and obviously dangerous for the victim, this individual who was shot, who brought this all on himself by presenting himself the way he did. There is no way around it. We have to serve search warrants. It's a part of our job. We do the best we can of making it apparent that this is what we are doing. But sometimes people have reasons for doing what they do. I can't explain it."

O'Connor: "The neighbors have been interviewed.... They said that the lights and sirens were on. Were they actually on? Did the neighbors hear that? This has been consistent. The neighbors said they heard the officers yelling, screaming, 'Police! Sheriff's Department!' Lights sirens... We'll take this case to the County Attorney's office."

O'Connor: "We thought that the wife was going to be gone with the two children to school. As it turns out, only one went to school, and the other one was still in the house with the mother. That's something we try to anticipate, we try to make it as safe as possible. In this case, she was still there."
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Food Negotiator · May 14, 2011

God damn, that's just sad. Everyday its more of this shit with someone getting hurt in a raid when someone gets trigger happy. This country has no idea how important gun control is, its just hurting too many people.

TheCheeF · May 14, 2011

That is just one sad story..So they believed he had drugs in the house and they lit him up with 71 bullets, just because? Wow, its even worse that he was a Marine. The War on Drugs just needs to end--bc shit like this doesn't have any logical reasoning behind it. You take a Marines life away from his young family bc of narcotics? HAHA the system we live in is just pathetic and it makes me sick to my stomach

Mo money · May 14, 2011

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Swills · May 14, 2011

Mo money said:

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StickyStanky · May 14, 2011

Arizona is like the wild west...you do not want to be on the radar of police by any means! Many reports of shoot first and ask questions later by uniformed "public service" officials...sad but he probably wouldn't have been shot if he laid down and just let them arrest

PSUKUSH · May 14, 2011

Food Negotiator said:

God damn, that's just sad. Everyday its more of this shit with someone getting hurt in a raid when someone gets trigger happy. This country has no idea how important gun control is, its just hurting too many people.
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Gun control? The poor, murdered vet who owned the AR-15 wasn't the one who had the problem.

Although this is terrible, I'm not surprised. "Anti Drug Tasks Forces" have a notorious record of shooting now and asking questions later. I'm at a loss for how these people sleep at night.

BOXcarRACER · May 14, 2011

The best part is they didn't even find a piece of paraphenalia at the residence let alone any illegal drugs. My heart goes out to the family and hopefully someone gets held accountable for the actions taken.

Edit: almost forgot this part... 71 shots fired at one target? Thats absurd. I came into this thread thinking it was a drug house with about fifty guard dogs.

20000678 · May 14, 2011

Food Negotiator said:

God damn, that's just sad. Everyday its more of this shit with someone getting hurt in a raid when someone gets trigger happy. This country has no idea how important gun control is, its just hurting too many people.
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Gun control, more like gun education. Society created these problems by creating a drug war, all those 100 years ago. Then it just got worse over time. Gun control does'nt do anything but keep good people from owning guns.

Sadly we created the trigger happy culture by hiding gun safety and education from our youths.
No guns for negroes describes why gun control is a form of control.
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doob3r · May 15, 2011

seems to me that he thought it was a home invasion. if the police never truly identified themselves and what they were there to do i probably would not have stood down either.

Its fucking sad and it aint right but shit happens, the man they shot was a combat veteran HIGHLY trained on the ar/m4 platform. there is no doubt in my mind he could have taken 3-4 of them with him if he were a violent person.

70+ shots, thats a lot of rounds for one man. I was not there and dont know much about this but, if they had yelled POLICE, DROP YOUR WEAPON, STAND DOWN, it could have been different.

edit: gun control is fucking bullshit, it only keeps guns from legal owners, gun control has worked for many horrible dictators, marijuana is a crime to 80% of GC users yet they still get their hands on it, if you think gun control is going to keep the gun from the criminal your in a fantasy land

Swills · May 15, 2011

doob3r said:

seems to me that he thought it was a home invasion. if the police never truly identified themselves and what they were there to do i probably would not have stood down either.

Its fucking sad and it aint right but shit happens, the man they shot was a combat veteran HIGHLY trained on the ar/m4 platform. there is no doubt in my mind he could have taken 3-4 of them with him if he were a violent person.

70+ shots, thats a lot of rounds for one man. I was not there and dont know much about this but, if they had yelled POLICE, DROP YOUR WEAPON, STAND DOWN, it could have been different.

edit: gun control is fucking bullshit, it only keeps guns from legal owners, gun control has worked for many horrible dictators, marijuana is a crime to 80% of GC users yet they still get their hands on it, if you think gun control is going to keep the gun from the criminal your in a fantasy land
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You know who follows orders better than anyone And respects the uniform? Marines. They also know how to control themselves with a weapon. You're right, if this marine was trained for combat, he could have put bullets in anyone who was in the doorway.

And how many fucking people were in the doorway for 71 fucking bullets to be fired? Were all 71 bullets in the poor marine or all over the house as well?

This entire SWAT team needs their badges and weapons revoked NOW and a full investigation better be underway while they are suspended WITHOUT pay.

They killed a family man who worked the night shift and was home in bed with his wife and young child.

doob3r · May 15, 2011

Swills said:

You know who follows orders better than anyone And respects the uniform? Marines. They also know how to control themselves with a weapon. You're right, if this marine was trained for combat, he could have put bullets in anyone who was in the doorway.

And how many fucking people were in the doorway for 71 fucking bullets to be fired? Were all 71 bullets in the poor marine or all over the house as well?

This entire SWAT team needs their badges and weapons revoked NOW and a full investigation better be underway while they are suspended WITHOUT pay.

They killed a family man who worked the night shift and was home in bed with his wife and young child.
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Yes, 71 bullets is way to many, it only takes one bullet and a split second to drop a man, they showed very excessive use with their firearms, i dont know what their duty weapon was but im almost sure someone would have had to reload and continue to fire with the led count being that high, seems from what i read they just shot the place up, anyone of those bullets could have struck a by stander, his wife or his children. they may have panic`d when they saw what he was holding but still, it could have been resolved differently, it almost seems swat officers outside the home must have opened up.

suspended with out pay 100%, very detailed investigation and witness statements should be filed.

Its sad because that average working man supporting his family can be me or you man. i think this was a clear case of shoot first and ask questions later, but the media and anti gunners will spin this so it sounds as if he did not own the evil black rifle this would not have happened. I hope any officer that shows up at my place knows protocol because i will be in the exact same boat as he was protecting my family, and in his eyes thats what he was doing imho.

Swills · May 15, 2011

I have an Update everyone, check it out. Anyone a lawyer, or know someone who is? This is a no brainer, right? From the sounds of it the SWAT and sherifffs are just fine with things as they are. They'll not release any info and prolly hope this just goes away.

ITS TIME TO HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE

doob3r · May 15, 2011

you cant cover up 71 rounds into a mans house, although im sure theyll come damn close to doing it, and thats what makes me feel sick

smokedahoot · May 15, 2011

Swills said:

I have an Update everyone, check it out. Anyone a lawyer, or know someone who is? This is a no brainer, right? From the sounds of it the SWAT and sherifffs are just fine with things as they are. They'll not release any info and prolly hope this just goes away.

ITS TIME TO HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE
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Im not a criminal lawyer, I work in employment/some corp. law. But I'm sure that this is not an open and shut case. The family of the man probably has a criminal lawyer and he will get access to all evidence the police have. I would let the family have time to gather themselves first and I can bet they will come out swinging if things are as fucked up as they seem...itll come out

Swills · May 15, 2011

smokedahoot said:

Im not a criminal lawyer, I work in employment/some corp. law. But I'm sure that this is not an open and shut case. The family of the man probably has a criminal lawyer and he will get access to all evidence the police have. I would let the family have time to gather themselves first and I can bet they will come out swinging if things are as fucked up as they seem...itll come out
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I wish life were that easy but the police department already has already lied on camera.

Read this, SWAT raid fatal drama is revealed in 911 call

Then watch a Lt. lie on camera on this site, Raw video: Sheriff's Office interview on fatal SWAT raid - KGUN9 On Your Side, Tucson News, Weather & Sports

This case isn't new. People get walked over, and killed, by SWAT and police all the time. http://forum.grasscity.com/pandoras-box/802234-las-vegas-swat-vs-unarmed-black-man.html

http://forum.grasscity.com/pandoras...tern-illinois-university-april-30-2011-a.html

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Police use Assault Weapons and Tank against Home School Mom wanting to protect daughter from Dangerous Medications
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SWAT Team conducts food raid in rural Ohio

On Monday, December 1, a SWAT team with semi-automatic rifles entered the private home of the Stowers family in LaGrange, Ohio, herded the family onto the couches in the living room, and kept guns trained on grandparents, their daughter-in-law (whose husband is currently serving as a U.S. Navy Seabee in Iraq), their children and grandchildren for four hours. The team was aggressive and belligerent. The children were quite traumatized. At some point, the “bad cop” SWAT team was relieved by another team, a “good cop” team that tried to befriend the family.
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Mass. mall 'gunman' was just carrying umbrella

BURLINGTON -- Police responded in force today to a report of a man with a rifle at a mall, evacuating shoppers and calling in a SWAT team as worried workers locked themselves into stores. But it turned out that the man was only carrying an umbrella.
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Swat team removes man from home after bar fight

Using loudspeakers, police attempted to rouse Coffey out of the home, and by 8 a.m., officers from Mishawaka and St. Joseph County’s SWAT teams had arrived at the scene.

Shortly after 9 a.m., a team of SWAT officers, using a flash grenade, swarmed the home and removed Coffey, the house’s only occupant.

Capt. Mike Grzegorek, the assistant commander of the Metro Homicide Unit and the commander of the SWAT team, said Coffey was found sleeping on a mattress in the front room of the house and offered no resistance.
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'I'm worried they went Hollywood': Investigation after girl, 7, was shot dead during bungled police raid as camera crew filmed SWAT team

An investigation has been launched after a seven-year-old girl was shot dead by police during a bungled raid on a Detroit home.

Aiyana Mo'nay Stanley-Jones was asleep on the sofa when a police SWAT team hurled a flash-bang grenade into the apartment and smashed the front door down.

The little girl was hit in the head by a bullet fired by one of the officers, Joseph Weekley, as a television camera crew filmed their exploits for a new show.
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SWAT officers invade home,
take 11-year-old at gunpoint
Cops demand boy go to doctor
because of fall during horseplay

Nearly a dozen members of a police SWAT team in western Colorado punched a hole in the front door and invaded a family's home with guns drawn, demanding that an 11-year-old boy who had had an accidental fall accompany them to the hospital, on the order of Garfield County Magistrate Lain Leoniak.
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Florida Kid Shot by SWAT Team, and Died.

A Florida eighth grader remains in a hospital one day after he was shot why by a SWAT team deputy at a standoff at a middle school. Authorities say 15-year-old Christopher openly was chased through the school in Longwood, Florida, as he carried what appeared to be a nine millimeter handgun. The weapon turned out to be a pellet gun. Authorities say the boy was shot after he took aim at the deputy. A live report plus reaction from one of the students who was held hostage, straight ahead.

"LONGWOOD, Fla. - A suicidal eighth-grader who pulled a handgun in class and forced another child into a closet was shot by a sheriff's SWAT team member Friday when he later threatened deputies, Seminole County officials said."

The alleged gunman told one of the students to go into a closet, ran from the classroom and "traveled with this firearm throughout the campus," Eslinger said. Deputies eventually isolated him in a restroom, and the school was evacuated."

"At one time he held the gun to his neck. As the deputies attempted to establish dialogue, he raised the firearm and lethal force was used by the sheriff's office," Eslinger said."
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SWAT Team Honored For Raid On Wrong House

On Monday, Minneapolis Police Chief Tim Dolan handed out honors to a team of officers involved in a botched raid at an innocent family's home more than seven months ago. The family is upset and their attorney criticizes the awards and questions the timing.
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Minneapolis SWAT Team Raids Wrong House

MINNEAPOLIS — With her six kids and husband tucked into bed, Yee Moua was watching TV in her living room just after midnight when she heard voices — faint at first, then louder. Then came the sound of a window shattering.

Moua bolted upstairs, where her husband, Vang Khang, grabbed his shotgun from a closet, knelt and fired a warning shot through his doorway as he heard footsteps coming up the stairs. He let loose with two more blasts. Twenty-two bullets were fired back at him, by the family's count.

Then things suddenly became clear.

"It's the police! Police!" his sons yelled.
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Mayor wants federal probe after SWAT raids house, kills dogs

CNN) -- A Maryland mayor is asking the federal government to investigate why SWAT team members burst into his home without knocking and shot his two dogs to death in an investigation into a drug smuggling scheme.
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I should have been a lawyer.

Laced Wit Hash · May 15, 2011

Sad. This Marine was defending his house and was most likely not ever going to shoot. If he was, the Safety would have been "off".

Stupid fucking DEA and their drug war.

1833dc · May 15, 2011

God Damn, This story tears at my heart being a former Marine myself. Semper Fi Devil Dog!!! Rip Brother sorry that those you willing laid your life on the line to defend were the same cowards that brought you to your end. Everyone in there right mind knows that he would have put some rounds down range if that was his intention, this is deffinently a case where he believed his home was being invaded. I hope they bring these coward swat members to justice and make them pay.

TicTacToke · May 15, 2011

This is sickening.

20000678 · May 15, 2011

My grandmother and grandfather do not trust cops becuase of what they did to my family in the 70's. Long story short the police department could have just apologized for nearly killing my grandfather, but they sued us instead and followed my family around. They're all the same, human. That's the problem, we glorify cops as protectors when in reality they're operating on the same corrupt moral dilemas as us. They just aren't used to being persucuted for being "bad people".

For an example of justifying horrific actions:

The Stanford experiment ended on August 20, 1971, only six days after it began instead of the fourteen it was supposed to have lasted. That day, Zimbardo called both the guards and inmates to a meeting and announced that the 'prison' was closing down. The experiment's result has been argued to demonstrate the impressionability and obedience of people when provided with a legitimizing ideology and social and institutional support. It is also used to illustrate cognitive dissonance theory and the power of authority.
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