{"id":37486,"date":"2013-09-08T12:32:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T16:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37486"},"modified":"2013-09-08T12:32:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T16:32:37","slug":"guerena-civil-suit-settled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37486","title":{"rendered":"Guerena civil suit settled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We spent a lot of time in late-2011 writing about the SWAT attack on <a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?cat=168\">Marine corporal Jose Guere\u00f1a<\/a> in which the young former Marine was shot 22 times by Pima County officers. An internal investigation found that the officers weren&#8217;t culpable in the killing despite the fact that more than 70 rounds were fired at Guere\u00f1a, some striking the door frame through which a crowd of officers were firing like amateurs.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it seems that there may be a measure of justice for Jose&#8217;s widow. Eggs sends us a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kgun9.com\/news\/local\/222624761.html\">link to an article<\/a> which reports that the family has won in a civil judgement against the department;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The amount reached is a clear indication that the defendants in this case take responsibility, assume liability for their bad acts that day,&#8221; said Guerena family attorney Christopher Scileppi.<\/p>\n<p>The exact figure isn&#8217;t public yet, but Scileppi says the money will help a family move forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She can truly begin the healing process,&#8221; said Scileppi.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, Scileppi believes the settlement will show the public Guerena isn&#8217;t the criminal law enforcement made him out to be.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He isn&#8217;t going to be looked at as a drug trafficker, but as a decorated [M]arine who came back and became a great family  man, &#8221; said Scileppi.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, the money comes out of public funds, but the voters of Pima County, AZ should punish Sheriff Dupnik at the polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spent a lot of time in late-2011 writing about the SWAT attack on Marine corporal Jose Guere\u00f1a in which the young former Marine was shot 22 times by Pima County officers. An internal investigation found that the officers weren&#8217;t culpable in the killing despite the fact that more than 70 rounds were fired at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-guerena-killing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-9KC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}