7/5/2023 0 Comments Rise of the warrior cop![]() ![]() ![]() On the night of January 24, 2006, Baucum called Culosi and arranged a time to drop by to collect his winnings. And that’s when they brought in the SWAT team. Under Virginia law, that was enough for police to charge Culosi with running a gambling operation. Eventually Culosi and Baucum bet more than $2,000 in a single day. During the next several months, he talked Culosi into raising the stakes of what Culosi thought were just more fun wagers between friends to make watching sports more interesting. After overhearing the men wagering, Baucum befriended Culosi as a cover to begin investigating him. “None of us single, successful professionals ever thought that betting fifty bucks or so on the Virginia-Virginia Tech football game was a crime worthy of investigation.” Baucum apparently did. “To Sal, betting a few bills on the Redskins was a stress reliever, done among friends,” a friend of Culosi’s told me shortly after his death. Several months earlier at a local bar, Fairfax County, Virginia, detective David Baucum overheard the thirty-eight-year-old optometrist and some friends wagering on a college football game. ![]() His local government killed him, ostensibly to protect him from his gambling habit. Sal Culosi is dead because he bet on a football game - but it wasn’t a bookie or a loan shark who killed him. Salon ( “Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”: The new warrior cop is out of control): The paramilitarization of American law enforcement has had deadly consequences. ![]()
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