Friday, October 11, 2013

Criminal: No Prosecution Despite $3.4 Million Settlement in Jose Guerena Killing

Via WRSA

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TUCSON (AP) – The family of a former Marine who was killed when a SWAT team raided his Tucson-area home in 2011 has settled a lawsuit with four police agencies for $3.4 million, a newspaper reported Thursday.
If they did nothing wrong, why settle? And since a civil lawsuits’ 51% “preponderance of evidence” is basically a mirror-image of the standard for indictment, why hasn’t Pima County Attorney Barbara LaWall done anything to prosecute the SWAT officers who broke into Guerena’s home without sufficient warning, shot him, and denied paramedics access until after he was dead? The article says:
“The county attorney’s office later cleared the SWAT team officers of any wrongdoing.”
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2 comments:

  1. The community is on the hook for 3.4 million tax dollars and the killers are cleared of any wrongdoing. I've said it before and I'll say it again, a willingness to do this sort of thing is seen as an asset in modern militarized law enforcement.

    David Martin

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    1. a willingness to do this sort of thing is seen as an asset in modern militarized law enforcement.

      Evidently.

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