May 31st, 2011

Oath Keepers march for former marine killed by SWAT

TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) – The family of former marine Jose Guerena are still wondering why it happened. They marched side by side with the oath keepers, a group dedicated to protect the constitution and the rights it gives. Founder Stewart Rhodes tells 9OYS this incident with SWAT crossed the line.

“All you know is you got yelling men entering your home with guns in their hands, how are you going to react? it puts them in a no win situation,” Rhodes said.

The sheriff’s department video was released after the oath keepers planned their march so we asked if these pictures changed what they thought.

“Just because they blew the alarm doesn’t mean someone inside heard it. People here in AZ run their air conditioner all the time, you’re running music, who knows. The only real chance you have of knowing who it is is once they knock on the door and give you a chance to respond. The knock came, it was a knock and then four seconds later the door is knocked in,” Rhodes said.

Jack Anaya was friends with Guerena and worked with him for about a year. He’s backing his friend’s wife’s claim that no one heard the officers coming.

“I am glad to see they did announce themselves but when we get off of our 12 hour graveyard shift he was only an hour and a half into his sleep. You’re not going to be able to wake up and comprehend what’s going on,” Anaya said.

Guerena’s family wishes they could wake up from this nightmare. During a moment of silence the drummer sounded 71 beats, the same number of shots fired at Guerena.

“This should not have happened anywhere in America, it should not have happened in Arizona,” Richard Mack, former Graham County Sheriff, said.

As people left flowers at the home, Mack tells 9OYS SWAT is being overused.

“They go on too many mundane calls. Call that don’t merit a SWAT team,” Mack said.

The oath keepers are calling on Sheriff Clarence Dupnik to reevaluate how the sheriff’s department uses the SWAT team. They’re expected to deliver a petition asking for change to the governor and attorney general on Tuesday.

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One Response to “Oath Keepers march for former marine killed by SWAT”

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Barque Says:
June 10th, 2011 at 10:36 am
Oathkeepers are a bunch of nuts. With the new information out why the ex-Marine was being investigated in the first place, Hoaxkeepers have a lot of egg on their face.

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Founder Stewart Rhodes

He is a former firearms instructor and former member of Rep. Ron Paul’s DC staff.

Stewart previously wrote the monthly Enemy at the Gates column for S.W.A.T. Magazine

Stewart graduated from Yale Law School in 2004, where his paper “Solving the Puzzle of Enemy Combatant Status” won Yale’s Miller prize for best paper on the Bill of Rights. He assisted teaching U.S. military history at Yale, was a Yale Research Scholar, and is writing a book on the dangers of applying the laws of war to the American people.