The Fairfax (VA) County police shot an unarmed optometrist to death because he was a bookie.
Okay, that’s a little misleading. Here’s a more refined version: Fairfax County police sent a SWAT team to serve a search warrant on an unarmed optometrist, for suspicion of gambling. As the team descended on the optometrist, one member’s handgun went off, killing the unarmed man.
The Agitator is all over this story, here and here
“When you draw the weapon, you always try to assess what the potential threat is going to be,” [Lt. Richard] Perez said. He said the officers in the tactical squad are “highly trained officers. Do unintentional shootings occur? Absolutely. We’re humans, and these kind of things do occur.”
Actually, they don’t occur when SWAT teams aren’t deployed for ‘routine’ warrants!