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Iraq War veteran shot by SWAT team during a raid

Document Date: March 5, 2013

An Arizona SWAT team defended shooting an Iraq War veteran 60 times during a drug raid, even after retracting its claim that the veteran shot first. The SWAT team was trying to serve a narcotics search warrant as part of a multi-house drug crackdown, although it declines to say whether it found any drugs in the veteran’s house.

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