7/7/13

The militarization of America's cops

Sal Culosi is dead because he bet on a football game — but it wasn’t a bookie or a loan shark who killed him. His local government killed him, ostensibly to protect him from his gambling habit.
Several months earlier at a local bar, Fairfax County, Virginia, detective David Baucum overheard the 38-year-old optometrist and some friends wagering on a college football game. Read what happened next.
[Thanks: BJS]