Or sometimes people have twitchy trigger fingers. Ooooops.
Salvatore Culosi, Jr.
January 24, 2006—VA
A SWAT team in Fairfax County, Virginia serves a warrant on Culosi, an optometrist who is suspected of running a sports gambling pool with friends.
As the team surrounds him, one officer's weapon accidentally discharges, striking Culosi in the chest and killing him.
Culosi had no criminal record, no history of violence, and police found no weapons in his home.
Fairfax officials later tell the Washington Post that nearly all of the county's search warrants are executed with a SWAT team, even document searches.
That is insane. Why do the citizens of Fairfax put up with that?