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A Mexican tourist was attacked and injured by a police dog while renting a house in Colorado because he did not understand police warnings in fluent Spanish. Ultimately the court awarded him damages of more than $200,000.
los angeles The Fox News network Fox 11, in conjunction with foreign media reports, reported that one person is in the United Statescolorado A Mexican tourist was attacked and injured by a police dog after police issued an incoherent warning in Spanish to law enforcement. The man was recently awarded damages of more than NT$200,000.
The incident happened three years ago. The victim in this case, Mexican musician Salvador Alonso Guerrero-Salmerón, was a musician at the time.sightseeing tour He obtained a visa to travel to Colorado and rented a house in Aurora in the state.
According to local television station KDVR, on March 2, 2023, Aurora police went to a residence to execute a drug warrant. The wanted man lived on rent in the same house as Guerrero-Salmeron.
During the SWAT operation, officers used loudspeakers to ask people inside the house to come out.
Guerrero-Salmeron, who had just woken up, was completely unable to understand the content of the police broadcast because although instructions were issued in English and Spanish, the police officer’s Spanish pronunciation was extremely poor, the “Denver Post” reported.
According to court documents obtained by The Denver Post, Aurora police tried to warn residents of the home that a police dog was present, but the Spanish they spoke was completely incomprehensible.
KDVR reported that the Spanish officer shouted something roughly like this: “Fart police, fart the wood. We have a police fart, enter the wood.” (Police fart, wood fart. We have a police fart, enter wood.)
Although police later arrested the targeted suspect on a wanted warrant, police still allowed the police dog to bite the unarmed Guerrero-Salmerón.
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The victim was Mexican musician Salvador Alonso Guerrero-Salmerón. He was visiting Colorado on a tourist visa and was renting a house in Aurora.
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Although the police broadcast in English and Spanish, the pronunciation of Spanish was clumsy and the content almost incoherent. The victims who had just woken up didn’t understand it at all, and they were unable to detect the presence of police dogs at the scene.
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The court believed that the police used inappropriate warning methods during law enforcement, resulting in injuries to innocent residents, and therefore ordered the victim to receive medical treatment and pay more than NT$200,000 in damage compensation.
