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First,I would day that the Costco cleark deserves some punishment here, too.

So, do I believe a word of what these cops say? No.

There have just been too many instances of out of control cops running around shooting what are apparently innocent people and, then, just getting off the hook. Too many militarized police departments around the country who have gotten a ton of money from the Federal Government over the years, and have used it to create SWAT teams; and once you set ‘um up, you gotta use them. Too many “mistaken” raids on innocent people, too many houses trashed, and too many people traumatized.

In 2006 in the Washington, D.C. area, there was the case of an unarmed optometrist, Dr. Salvatore J. Culosi, a successful practitioner with no criminal record, no history of violence, and no guns in his possession, who was gunned down in front of his house one evening by a member of a Fairfax County, VA SWAT team, dispatched to his house to serve a routine warrant for the production of documents related to him taking a few sports bets at a local bar.

The SWAT team member who shot him in the heart and killed him was cleared by his supervisors and federal authorities, was suspended for just three weeks, was removed form the SWAT team but is still on the force, and is now a detective.

The Culosi’s family’s wrongful death suit is set to start trial in January, 2011, 6 years after his death.

It is starting to look like over-armed, overbearing, trigger-happy police—immune to any real investigation and punishment–are getting to be a greater threat to innocent civilians than the thugs they are supposed to protect us against.