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...Well, it's not like he was a productive citizen or anything, and he was breaking the law...that gambling between consenting adults--now that's something I want government resources used to crush.
"As they approached him . . . one officer's weapon, a handgun, was unintentionally discharged," said Fairfax Police Chief David M. Rohrer.
Here's something else I always look for in stories like this, and WaPo is true to form:
The officer, a 17-year veteran assigned to the police tactical unit, was not identified.Why the hell not? If you or I killed an unarmed man, do you think our names would be shielded by the police and by the press? Do you think we'd be place on leave with pay, and described as "valued"?
Gee, Dick, let me take a wild guess. It couldn't have anything to do with Officer Secret Identity having his finger on the trigger, could it?
Lt. Richard Perez, a police spokesman, said he could not say how or why the gun discharged.
If he really is the trained veteran being described, the only doubt this casts is on the accidental nature of this obscenity.
[Thanks to straightarrow]
Tags: gun, police
6 comments:
Criminally liable. Does that about cover it? Do they use SWAT teams to serve civil summons in that county, or are they reserved for the big cases like illegal parking?
Remember reading somewhere about the beginnings of tyranny spouting,"This you may not know,this is hidden from you".Yup, it's us,against,them.The damned swine.
From the Article
"Culosi had not displayed a weapon or shown any violent tendencies while he was being investigated by Baucom. But Perez said police had to be prepared for any possibility, because "the unexpected can occur.""
Yeah.. I guess the unexpected did occur. What a freakin outrage!
Also from the article..
"In the nearly 39 years that Robert F. Horan Jr. has been the chief prosecutor in Fairfax, no officer has been charged with improperly shooting someone."
Big surprise! We are living in a police state and most people don't even know it or care. In a country in which almost every state sponsors and runs organized gambling for the police to shoot someone who takes bets is inexcusable, heads should roll on this one and NOT only the scumbag that fired but the higher ups that authorize a poorly trained tac unit for such an arrest.
Terrible!
Anyone getting any reminders of Central American "death squads". I sure as Hell am.
This one has that, all to familiar, and distinctive 'odor' reminiscent of fish AND manure!
But, ah yes, they are "the only ones", are they not?
Well I didnt take the blue pill and found out how far the rabbit hole goes down. And this is the stuff that gets reported imagine what is too supersecrettacticalsquirl for us to know. I agree with the police state statement, however I have not given up on changing it but I am growing very tired of trying and seeing nothing done. The sheeple need something soo outrageous that it defies comprehention, and I thought we had it with the katrina gun grabs but guess I was wrong.
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