One must wonder if the “prejudice and bigotry” he [Arizona Sheriff Clarence Dupnik] considers endemic to Arizona is to blame for the death of U.S. Marine veteran Jose Guereña, killed when Dupnik’s deputies gunned him down in his home. They fired 71 shots. They hit him 60 times. And then, as if this wasn’t enough, Dupnik’s deputies blocked paramedics for an hour and 14 minutes from approaching the scene, denying Guereña treatment until he was assuredly dead.This is from Pajamas Media.
The SWAT Team fired 71 shots! Who was in charge to make sure that there was some form of fire discipline? Obviously not Sheriff Dubnik, who was talking a lot of nonsense after the shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords, at the beginning of the year.
The Instapundit wasn't very impressed and made his own exerpts from the post and then commented.
Police shouldn’t launch this sort of raid absent an imminent threat to life. They go wrong too often. And clowns like Pima County’s Sheriff Dupnik shouldn’t be around guns of any kind.The icing on the cake? US Marine veteran Jose Guereña still had the safety on his AR-15 as he died in a hail of bullets. The initial Sheriff's department report that he had fired on the police was either a lie or very bad situational awareness on the part of the SWAT.
Protecting the population means protecting all the population. AN "Oops" is not just bad, it is an indication of poor performance on the part of the law enforcement agency and a reason to ask questions and then perhaps vote in new people.
Lest one think I am pointing a finger at the local police or our County's Sheriff, I am NOT. I am pointing a finger at Sheriff Clarence Dupnik and the voters of Pima County, Arizona.
Regards — Cliff
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That something such as this could happen in DUMnik's department is not at all surprising. No discipline, just all pedal to the metal and sort it out afterward. That is what he did during the media circus after the shooting in Tucson, so why would anyone expect anything different from his "team."
In spite of the fact that a situation that has risen to the level needing a SWAT response is a situation that is electrically tense and supercharged with lots of hormones in action, the vast majority of death outcomes by SWAT are single shots delivered with often surgical precision, and then only when no other alternative will suffice. In NH not more than a few weeks ago, SWAT sat on a situation for over two days, necessitating a shift arrangement in team members because the leadership didn't want anyone "on duty" who was tired...and in the end....the fellow who was barricaded with his child daughter was killed with a single shot to the head in order to save the little girl.
Why a society such as Pima county AZ would continue to "hire" an idiot like this guy is one for the sociologists, but my guess is that as long as he doesn't affect me as a resident of the county, it's not my problem.
BTW, the fact that this Marine had a Spanish name is not lost on me. I would be willing to wager a large sum of whatever that it had a very central role in the response.
And isn't it just ironic that this sheriff shot his mouth off so much about the need to stop the violence and advocated disarming people because of what guns can do....and his own force shows a nearly unprecedented form of violence with "lawful" use of guns. Right!!!!
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