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I live in Fairfax... and these police tactics are obscene! Latest word today after police investigation is officer is not guilty! Obscene! Several stories follow to show what I mean!
SWAT Tactics at Issue After Fairfax Shooting
By Tom Jackman
Washington Post Staff Writer
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/26/AR2006012602136.html
Friday, January 27, 2006; Page B01
"...Salvatore J. Culosi Sr. still can't believe his son, a 37-year-old optometrist, was a suspected sports bookie. He can't believe a heavily armed SWAT team fatally shot his unarmed son, Salvatore J. Culosi Jr., outside his Fair Oaks home Tuesday night. And Culosi can't believe that the SWAT team's sudden descent on his son, apparently causing one officer to accidentally fire a .45-caliber handgun once into his son's chest, is standard procedure for Fairfax County police conducting a search..."
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Overkill: The Latest Trend in Policing
by Radley Balko
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5439
"Radley Balko is a policy analyst specializing in "nanny state" and consumer choice issues, including alcohol and tobacco control, drug prohibition, obesity, and civil liberties. On Jan. 24, a SWAT team in Fairfax shot and killed Salvatore J. Culosi Jr., an optometrist who was under investigation for gambling. According to a Jan. 26 front-page story in The Post, Culosi had emerged from his home to meet an undercover officer when a police tactical unit swarmed around him. An officer's gun discharged, killing the suspect. Culosi, police said, was unarmed and had displayed no threatening behavior. It's unlikely that the officer who shot Culosi did so intentionally. But it's also unlikely that the investigation into this shooting will address why police sent a military-style unit to arrest an optometrist under investigation for a nonviolent crime and why the officers had their guns drawn when approaching a man with no history of violence. This isn't the first time a SWAT team in Virginia has killed someone while serving a gambling warrant. In 1998 a team in Virginia Beach conducted a 3 a.m. raid at a private club believed to be involved in organized gambling."
Salvatore Culosi Update
More details this morning from the Washington Post.
http://www.theagitator.com/archives/026200.php
"Culosi had no weapons in his home, and had no history of violence. What's more, police were conducting a document search. The possibility of weapons wasn't mentioned. Yet they sent the SWAT team anyway."
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We live in a police state. Rookie police are militant, untrained, and lethal to law abiding citizens! Overkill in my backyard. Obscene!
SWAT Tactics at Issue After Fairfax Shooting
By Tom Jackman
Washington Post Staff Writer
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/26/AR2006012602136.html
Friday, January 27, 2006; Page B01
"...Salvatore J. Culosi Sr. still can't believe his son, a 37-year-old optometrist, was a suspected sports bookie. He can't believe a heavily armed SWAT team fatally shot his unarmed son, Salvatore J. Culosi Jr., outside his Fair Oaks home Tuesday night. And Culosi can't believe that the SWAT team's sudden descent on his son, apparently causing one officer to accidentally fire a .45-caliber handgun once into his son's chest, is standard procedure for Fairfax County police conducting a search..."
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Overkill: The Latest Trend in Policing
by Radley Balko
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5439
"Radley Balko is a policy analyst specializing in "nanny state" and consumer choice issues, including alcohol and tobacco control, drug prohibition, obesity, and civil liberties. On Jan. 24, a SWAT team in Fairfax shot and killed Salvatore J. Culosi Jr., an optometrist who was under investigation for gambling. According to a Jan. 26 front-page story in The Post, Culosi had emerged from his home to meet an undercover officer when a police tactical unit swarmed around him. An officer's gun discharged, killing the suspect. Culosi, police said, was unarmed and had displayed no threatening behavior. It's unlikely that the officer who shot Culosi did so intentionally. But it's also unlikely that the investigation into this shooting will address why police sent a military-style unit to arrest an optometrist under investigation for a nonviolent crime and why the officers had their guns drawn when approaching a man with no history of violence. This isn't the first time a SWAT team in Virginia has killed someone while serving a gambling warrant. In 1998 a team in Virginia Beach conducted a 3 a.m. raid at a private club believed to be involved in organized gambling."
Salvatore Culosi Update
More details this morning from the Washington Post.
http://www.theagitator.com/archives/026200.php
"Culosi had no weapons in his home, and had no history of violence. What's more, police were conducting a document search. The possibility of weapons wasn't mentioned. Yet they sent the SWAT team anyway."
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We live in a police state. Rookie police are militant, untrained, and lethal to law abiding citizens! Overkill in my backyard. Obscene!