crazy story of a man getting killed by SWAT for illegal bar wager

[rkell87]

http://reason.com/archives/2011/01/17/justice-for-sal

The SWAT team came to Culosi's house because another Fairfax County detective, David Baucum, overheard him and some friends wagering on a college football game at a bar. "To Sal, betting a few bills on the Commanders was a stress reliever, done among friends," a friend of Culosi's told me shortly after his death. "None of us single, successful professionals ever thought that betting 50 bucks or so on the Virginia/Virginia Tech football game was a crime worthy of investigation." Baucum apparently did. After overhearing the wagering, Baucum befriended Culosi. During the next several months he talked Culosi into raising the stakes of what Culosi thought were friendly wagers. Eventually Culosi and Baucum bet more than $2,000 in a single day, enough under Virginia law for police to charge Culosi with running a gambling operation. That's when they brought in the SWAT team.......

 

[Trendnet]

This reads like the police detective was upset at losing and set up a sting as retribution.

I myself have gone with friends to a game, with a wad of ones, and will make quick wagers on the play, like winner takes pot if the kick returner takes the return for 25 yards, or the play is a run for 5 to 8 yards.

Guess I better not do that in Virginia.

 

[YosemiteSam]

It's funny how tax dollars are used to kill innocent people and then protect the *******s that did the killing.

These guys deserve prison and/or death.

 

[JustDezIt]

sickening

 

[kimrose]

sickening

That's exactly what I was going to say.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

That really sounds bad.

I don't know enough about the legal definition of entrapment but it seemed like the one detective/investigator was the one urging the guy to bet more in order for it to fall into a category they could arrest him for.

Whole thing sounds really bad.

 

[YosemiteSam]

That really sounds bad.

I don't know enough about the legal definition of entrapment but it seemed like the one detective/investigator was the one urging the guy to bet more in order for it to fall into a category they could arrest him for.

Whole thing sounds really bad.

Sounds like 2nd degree murder to me.

Second Degree Murder:

n. a non-premeditated killing, resulting from an assault in which death of the victim was a distinct possibility.​

It was an illegal action taken against someone that results in an unintended death. (was it unintended?)

 

[trickblue]

That really sounds bad.

I don't know enough about the legal definition of entrapment but it seemed like the one detective/investigator was the one urging the guy to bet more in order for it to fall into a category they could arrest him for.

Whole thing sounds really bad.

Sounds like 2nd degree murder to me.

Second Degree Murder:

n. a non-premeditated killing, resulting from an assault in which death of the victim was a distinct possibility.​

It was an illegal action taken against someone that results in an unintended death. (was it unintended?)

Sounds to me as if there was possibly some deeper criminal activity these two were involved in and it was closing in. Eliminate the witnesses...

 

[Doomsday]

That is sickening. RIP Sal

 

[gmoney112]

Wow entrapped by a local detective and then murdered in his own front lawn. No one was prosecuted and the civil suit was eventually settled with local taxpayers footing the bill. I'm going to go watch the dancing chihuaha some more because this just pisses me off.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

sickening

So sickening. Go find some of these rapists, murders, carjackers, robbers. Freaking that was their money. Let them do as they please if they earned it.

:bang2:

And they kill they guy.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

Wow entrapped by a local detective and then murdered in his own front lawn. No one was prosecuted and the civil suit was eventually settled with local taxpayers footing the bill. I'm going to go watch the dancing chihuaha some more because this just pisses me off.

Most of the time the state claims immunity in cases like these. Or there is some sort of administration hearing that decides the officers did nothing wrong. Usually, that's because they don't want anymore egg on their face than there already is.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

Sounds like 2nd degree murder to me.

Second Degree Murder:

n. a non-premeditated killing, resulting from an assault in which death of the victim was a distinct possibility.​

It was an illegal action taken against someone that results in an unintended death. (was it unintended?)

And they should be held accountable. Cripes.