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Fairfax Police Say Shooting Was Accident
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/25/AR2006012502245.html ^
Posted on 01/26/2006 2:14:15 PM PST by vrwc0915
Fairfax County's police chief said yesterday that one of his officers accidentally shot and killed an optometrist outside the unarmed man's townhouse Tuesday night as an undercover detective was about to arrest him on suspicion of gambling on sports.
Police had been secretly making bets with Salvatore J. Culosi Jr., 37, since October as part of a gambling investigation, according to court records. They planned to search his home in the Fair Oaks area, just off Lee Highway, shortly after 9:30 p.m Culosi came out of his townhouse on Cavalier Landing Court about 9:35 p.m. and was standing next to the detective's sport-utility vehicle, police said, when the detective gave a signal to tactical officers assembled nearby to move in and arrest Culosi.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: bang; banglist; donutwatch; fairfaxcounty; jackbootedthugs; jbt; leo; libertarians; policetstate; shooting; virginia; warongambling
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posted on
01/26/2006 2:14:18 PM PST
by
vrwc0915
To: vrwc0915
A swat/tactical team to take down a unarmed eye doctor!
2
posted on
01/26/2006 2:15:43 PM PST
by
vrwc0915
("Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants,)
To: vrwc0915
Unarmed. Shot. For gambling.
This Country is so screwed...
3
posted on
01/26/2006 2:16:28 PM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be. -El Neil)
To: vrwc0915
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posted on
01/26/2006 2:17:18 PM PST
by
Old Professer
(Fix the problem, not the blame!)
To: vrwc0915
The officer should be fired. What a disgrace.
To: vrwc0915
I guess they should have called out the army.
6
posted on
01/26/2006 2:18:35 PM PST
by
Unicorn
(Too many wimps around.)
To: vrwc0915
"Culosi was not making any threatening moves when he was shot once in the upper part of his body,"
So would that be his chest or his head?
I do find it interesting that Fairfax has the resources to tie up a tactical squad and detectives to take down a sports ring. Bad things happen when cops are bored.
7
posted on
01/26/2006 2:20:17 PM PST
by
tfecw
(It's for the children)
From the article "After several years without any shootings, officers shot and wounded several people last year, including one of their own officers in an accidental shooting."
Sounds like a real crack squad they've got there.
To: vrwc0915
Overwhelming force is vastly preferable to insufficient force. They had no way of knowing whether he was armed.
But yeah, the officer that pulled the trigger needs to be disciplined.
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posted on
01/26/2006 2:21:55 PM PST
by
Gordongekko909
(I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
To: vrwc0915
2 to 1 odds the cop needs glasses.
10
posted on
01/26/2006 2:22:30 PM PST
by
toddlintown
(Lennon takes six bullets to the chest, Yoko is standing right next to him and not one f'ing bullet?)
Comment #11 Removed by Moderator
To: Gordongekko909
"Overwhelming force is vastly preferable to insufficient force"
Wow! I don't know where to begin responding to that
12
posted on
01/26/2006 2:25:46 PM PST
by
vrwc0915
("Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants,)
To: vrwc0915
Was the shooting after the guy bet the cop he would shoot?
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posted on
01/26/2006 2:26:18 PM PST
by
pikachu
(I must be be built upside down -- my nose runs and my feet smell!)
To: Gordongekko909
Officer need to be disciplined? What the heck--fire him already, and make him pay at least some of the compensation to his family that the good people of Fairfax will have to pay.
If a police officer can't stop himself from "accidently" shooting off his pistol, something is dreadfully wrong!
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posted on
01/26/2006 2:26:23 PM PST
by
basil
(Exercise your Second Amendment--buy another gun today!)
To: vrwc0915
Insufficient force -> shootout. Overwhelming force -> surrender. Surrender > shootout.
15
posted on
01/26/2006 2:26:56 PM PST
by
Gordongekko909
(I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
To: basil
I don't know but suspect that this was no accident
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posted on
01/26/2006 2:27:10 PM PST
by
vrwc0915
("Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants,)
To: vrwc0915
"We're humans, and these kind of things do occur."
Well crap... I guess I'm going to have to keep that in mind.
Un-f*cking believable.
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posted on
01/26/2006 2:27:33 PM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be. -El Neil)
To: vrwc0915
Should the gun have even been drawn?
18
posted on
01/26/2006 2:27:36 PM PST
by
atomicpossum
(Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
To: basil
I deliberately used the word "disciplined" because it was ambiguous. It could mean anything from "slap on the wrist" to "charge with manslaughter and put in jail." I don't know all the circumstances, so I'm not going to specify a penalty.
*Looks around*
Oh. I'm in a libertarian thread.
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posted on
01/26/2006 2:28:36 PM PST
by
Gordongekko909
(I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
To: vrwc0915
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