Posted on 02/05/2006 6:23:11 PM PST by elkfersupper
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.
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Ping.
He'll let these cops go too. "Jus' an accydent" he'll say.
He still thinks Amir Kansi's car was retrieved successfully after the killings at the CIA a decade ago. We saw it spray painted silver by a group of Saudi, Yemeni and Pakistani cab-drivers across the street from where Gilbert Colon (a Bill Clinton staffer who carried the cash from Riady to the Presidential campaign fund).
They all disappeared on 9/11.
This situation has to be investigated thoroughly ~ simply to discover why the cops had to dispose of this particular witness.
Accident my ass. What ever happened to keep your finger off the trigger until the sights are on the target. Any cop who shoots somebody by "accident" is way to incompetent to be carrying a weapon.
This was Maryland. This was no accident. It's almost like the Mafia have their own state.
The Rise in Paramilitary Policing
http://www.copi.com/articles/gstorm.html
Very interesting.
I've seen that. Thanks for posting it for those who have not.
Fairfax County is where I live. It is still firmly in Virginia.
There are no other choices.
L
I like the language in the editorial.
"An officer's gun discharged, killing the suspect."
Almost forgot you ping.
L
There are no other choices.
I disagree. An AD occurs when there's a mechanical malfunction of the weapon. I've seen it happen, when the disconnector on a 1911 broke, and the gun went full auto. The first round fired was on target and was intentional. The next 7 were accidental. But they were all fired safely downrange.
Mark
This is what happens when police bureaucrats and government apparatchiks are given their own personal armed forces.
They can't just sit around looking intimidating because that won't justify next year's budget increases - they HAVE to be used!
Brought to you by the folks who gave us Waco and Ruby Ridge... Play with fire and you WILL get burned.
L
I had an M60 'run away' on me once. Scared the crap out of me and I was the one firing it.
L
Or maybe the past was different. It used to be that peace officers kept the peace. Now law enforcement officers enforce the law.
A previous long-time sheriff in the rural NM county where I was born and raised would not permit his deputies to issue traffic citations unless it involved a wreck or flagrant endangerment.
The current one has deputies trolling dirt roads looking for seat belt violations.
I'll never forgive the NRA for backing down on their "Jack-booted Stormtrooper" ad after Waco...
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