PHOENIX, Arizona (PNN) - June 14, 2011 – In what has become a typical resolution to outrageous examples of police brutality in the Police States of Amerika, the SWAT team that gunned down a former Marine in his Tucson, Arizona home was cleared today of any wrongdoing in the incident.
Jose Guerena, 26, was killed in a hail of bullets from the SWAT team, which broke down the door to his home on May 5 while trying to serve a search warrant as part of a home invasion probe.
Guerena did not fire a single shot in the incident, but Pima County Chief Criminal Deputy Attorney David Berkman said in the report issued today that the five SWAT team members were justified in using deadly force because the former Marine pointed his weapon at them.
"A close examination of the rifle revealed it appeared to have been damaged by being fired upon from such an angle that it must have been pointed toward officers," Berkman wrote. "The officers were mistaken in believing Guerena fired at them. However, when Guerena raised the AR-15 semi-automatic assault rifle in their direction, they needed to take immediate action to stop the deadly threat against them."
Mike Storie, an attorney representing the SWAT officers, told ABC News affiliate KGUN-TV in Tucson that he never expected the investigation to result in criminal charges.
"This is no surprise to me," said Storie. "I fully expected this. It's the correct result." SWAT team members acknowledged in interviews that Guerena never fired his weapon before the officers broke down his door and murdered him with a barrage of 71 bullets, shown in a dramatic helmet-cam video released last month.
Guerena, a veteran of two tours of duty in Iraq, was asleep after working a night shift at the Asarco copper mine when his wife, Vanessa, saw the team outside her youngest son's bedroom window and yelled to her husband. He grabbed his AR-15 rifle.
Vanessa Guerena didn't know the men were SWAT officers and thought they might be home invaders, especially because two members of her sister-in-law's family were killed last year in their Tucson home, said her lawyer, Chris Scileppi.
Ed. Note: This is another example of how Amerika has become a fascist police state in which individual property rights are disregarded by government thugs on a regular basis. The only workable solution is to kill your would-be murderers before they can murder you or your children. Revolution Now! Independence Forever!
