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WaPo: SWAT raid killing unarmed man for betting on football games results in $2M settlement

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

SWAT raid gone bad: Culosi family to receive $2 million from Fairfax by Tom Jackman in the Washington Post: Nearly five years after a Fairfax County police officer shot and killed an unarmed man outside his townhouse, the county has agreed to pay the man's parents $2 million to settle their lawsuit against the officer. The death of Salvatore J. Culosi, a 37-year-old optometrist who lived in the Fair Oaks area, sparked outrage over the use of a SWAT team to arrest a man suspected of the nonviolent crime of taking bets on football games. Fairfax police were aware that Culosi had no criminal history or connection to weapons.

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on January 18, 2011 (boomark / email).