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Tuesday, November 08, 2011

How The War On Terror Has Militarized The Police

At around 9:00 a.m. on May 5, 2011, officers with the Pima County, Arizona, Sheriff's Department's Special Weapons and Tactics (S.W.A.T.) team surrounded the home of 26-year-old José Guerena, a former U.S. Marine and veteran of two tours of duty in Iraq, to serve a search warrant for narcotics. As the officers approached, Guerena lay sleeping in his bedroom after working the graveyard shift at a local mine. When his wife Vanessa woke him up, screaming that she had seen a man outside the window pointing a gun at her, Guerena grabbed his AR-15 rifle, instructed Vanessa to hide in the closet with their four-year old son, and left the bedroom to investigate.

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  1. AnonymousNovember 9, 2011 at 4:28 PM

    I guess that partially answers my previous question from the other day on what is wrong with cops today.

    They are no longer here to 'protect and serve', they are now programmed to 'disable and destroy'.

    Which may be fine if they got it right every single time but as we have seen repeatedly, they don't always get it right.

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  2. lmclainNovember 9, 2011 at 5:56 PM

    How many rounds from an automatic rifle do police think they need to pump into a man who has already been shot 20-30 times by high powered military weapons? I think the story said he was shot with 72 rounds by (the video appears to show at least four) several officers. The Marine (who did NOT have ANY drugs in his house) was probably down (and probably dead) after the first 7 or eight shots. But, the automatic weapons fire continued. I suppose the police get a big kick out of watching a body jerk around as they pump dozens of rounds into a a man who was essentially turned into hamburger. Went to war, came back fine. Kissed his son goodbye as he went to school. Then got murdered by the ones sworn to "protect & serve"....

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