After a discussion that began here in late April when I mentioned that cops were not only training for terrorist attacks on the ground in the US, but citing positively armed citizens\u2019 response in some such incidents, the matter morphed into a debate about whether the cops themselves were terrorists. Several who took that position cited YouTube videos, and I said that a tutorial on the topic of how to analyze such videos for the truth they contain might be in order. Several who commented here endorsed that idea, so here\u2019s the first segment.<\/p>\n
I was going to start with a non-police case, but since my last blog entry some have suggested that the recent fatal shooting of Jose Guerena in Pima County, Arizona would be a good place to begin. Fair enough. A good synopsis of this incident appears at Wikipedia<\/a>, and should be read for background.<\/p>\n Prior to the recent release of a video of the incident from a camera mounted to the helmet of one of the SWAT cops, an aggregate of the myriad accusations against the police ran as follows.<\/p>\n Supposedly, the evil police (1) came silently like thieves (2) in the night, (3) wearing masks like burglars or home invaders, and (4) without identifying themselves, and opened fire on the homeowner (5) for no reason. It has also been alleged that they (6) shot him 60 to 71 times, (7) conspired to deprive him of emergency medical care until it was certain he was dead, (8) and made an illegal warrantless entry in any case, (9) should have known they weren\u2019t in danger because the fully loaded rifle of the homeowner was recovered \u201con safe,\u201d and (10) didn\u2019t have grounds to make the raid to begin with. Oh, and they supposedly (11) \u201cattacked\u201d the wrong address, to boot.<\/p>\n Six of those eleven accusations, more than half of the allegations, are proven false on their face by the helmetcam video.<\/p>\n