Two More Drug War Deaths This Week
A Virginia man was shot and killed by police Tuesday after a drug investigation turned into a chase and confrontation, and a Florida man died Wednesday after swallowing drugs in a bid to avoid arrest...
View ArticleTulsa Meth and Guns Suspect Killed When Reserve Deputy Grabs Pistol Instead...
A Tulsa man targeted in undercover meth and gun trafficking investigations was shot and killed last Thursday by a 73-year-old reserve deputy who said he mistook his pistol for a Taser. Eric Harris...
View ArticleChronicle AM: OR Pot Sales Compromise, CO Employers Can Fire MedMJ Patients,...
A legislative compromise would let Oregon counties where voters opposed legalization ban pot shops, the Colorado Supreme Court rules in favor of employers over medical marijuana patients, two big...
View ArticleThe Most Outrageous Drug War Deaths of 2015 [FEATURE]
An as yet unnamed man killed by police in Rawlins, Wyoming, on December 30, after they were called to a convenience store about a person believed to be selling drugs in the parking lot, and Burlington,...
View ArticleFebruary's Drug War Deaths
The war on drugs continues to exact a lethal toll, with drug law enforcement-related deaths occurring at a pace of just under one a week so far this year. There were three in January, and four more...
View ArticleChronicle AM: NYPD Targets Addicts for Felony Dealing Busts, DC Cannabis Club...
Bernie talks pot in Wisconsin, Pittsburgh is a mayor's signature away from pot decriminalization, the DC city council votes to ban social consumption, NYPD narcs are targeting street addicts for felony...
View ArticleChronicle AM: MD MedMJ Delay, Ohio's Bad "Good Samaritan" Bill, No RI...
Another New England legislature fails to act on pot legalization, Maryland's long-awaited medical marijuana program is again delayed, Wisconsin's GOP attorney general wants all employers to drug test...
View ArticleMay Was a Bad Month for Drug War Deaths
At least seven people were killed by police doing drug law enforcement last month. Four were armed and two of them engaged in shootouts with police. Two were killed by police after vehicle chases where...
View ArticleA Long Hot Summer of Drug War Deaths [FEATURE]
The killing of a young, black, unarmed Tampa man by a SWAT team that raided his home in an operation that turned up two grams of marijuana has sparked angry protests last week, including demonstrations...
View ArticleThe Charlotte Killing That Sparked Civic Unrest Began With a Joint
The chain of events that led to the death of Keith Lamont Scott at the hands of Charlotte Metropolitan Police Department (CMPD) officers and days of civic unrest in North Carolina's largest city began...
View ArticleSeven More Drug War Deaths
When police in Charlotte, North Carolina, shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott in September in an incident that began when they spotting him rolling a joint in his car, the city was shaken by angry...
View Article2016: People Still Killed in US Drug War at the Rate of One a Week [FEATURE]
With 2016 now behind us, it's time for some year-end accounting, and when it comes to fatalities related to drug law enforcement, that accounting means tallying up the bodies. The good news is that...
View ArticleFour White Louisiana Narcs Choked This Young Black Man to Death in a...
New Orleans resident Keeven Robinson, 22, died after being arrested by Jefferson Parish narcotics officers last week. Police originally tried to blame his death on asthma, but now the Jefferson Parish...
View ArticleWatch: Undercover Detroit Narc Squads Brawl As They Try to Arrest Each Other
In a caper right out of the Keystone Cops, two different squads of armed undercover Detroit narcotics officers clashed earlier this month in a buy-bust operation gone badly awry. No one was hurt or...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Supreme Court Slaps Down Asset Forfeiture, No More No-Knocks in...
The Supreme Court reins in civil asset forfeiture, Denver joins cities participating in LEAD, Houston ends undercover no-knock raids in the wake of a fatal encounter, and more.[image:1 align:left...
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