“Where is the logic in conducting the raid at night, when no one can see anything, and shouting ‘put the fucking gun down’ at a confused, half-asleep old woman? Police put her in a position where she might have reasonably thought she was fighting for her life against robbers, giving her no choice but to fire and them with no choice but to retaliate with deadly force—all to bust her son for selling some weed.”
Read more: https://reason.com/blog/2018/02/01/cops-raid-house-kill-72-year-old-woman-w
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