Friday, May 27, 2011

Pima County, Arizona swat team shoots young father with no criminal record 70 times in botched drug raid, then forces paramedics to let him bleed to death for an hour, then spins itself straight to hell

Radley Balko, of the Huffington Post, had the unfortunate task of reporting the most despicable thing AKSARBENT has read all week.

What kind of lies do you tell the world when you botch a marijuana raid and shoot a former marine with a night job, a wife, a kid, and no criminal record 70 times when he didn't shoot at you (the gun recovered from his body still had the safety engaged) and you don't find anything in the house that was illegal?

And what do you say when you escort the 26-year-old's son and wife out of the house and refuse to allow paramedics inside, ensuring that he spends his last hour on earth bleeding to death alone?

If you're the Pima County, Arizona sheriff's office, you say this.

There's so much more to this story: endless spin, coverups, lies, incompetence and, at the end of the day, a passel of so-called public servants in Arizona who can't even fake morality convincingly enough to credibly lecture a fourth estate that, in telling the truth about them, has stripped away any evidence they might proffer that they deserve to be considered part of the human race, much less the recipients of badges, guns, government salaries and pensions.

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