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Rosendo Betancourt-Garcia
United States · Aged 39 · Died 06/30/2011
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Deadly force
Four men (Betancourt-Garcia, Gonzalez-Valdez, Lemus & Andrew) were shot to death in a botched drug & armed home invasion sting staged by the county SWAT team. One was shot 40 times while cowering unarmed and in a fetal position. The county has paid $600K in wrongful-death settlements to date. The State Attorney's Office report pointed to "a number of unusual, counter-intuitive, suspicious and/or disturbing factors" and justified the shootings reluctantly.
Alleged responsible partyU.S. Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, Miami-Dade County Police DepartmentReported by the cited sources. “Alleged” is used pending verification.
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