>> Even some of FR’s biggest drug war cheerleaders don’t seem to have the stomach for this one. <<
You’re right. I don’t. Maybe I’m not one of the biggest drug-war cheerleaders, but I often want to know the other side of the stories when some libertarians get all huffy about the war on drugs. (Like that Tuscon idiot preacher who deliberately got himself tazed.)
But You can’t murder even drug dealers. My guess is that he was one. That bit the article has about Jesus Malverde is a load of crap. Doesn’t matter, though. The police can’t just kill someone because they have a slight reason for a hunch he might be a drug dealer. If they were jumpy because they thought he might use one of those guns, the best I can see for them is that it lowers the crime from first-degree homicide to manslaughter. There’s no way in hell that they should ever wear a uniform again.
What evidence do you base your “guess” that the victim here was a drug dealer?
The “perp” in this case had a clean record and a full time job. Not exactly your typical “drug dealer” if he was in the business as those in law enforcement have been trying to assert.
Except for that pesky no dope was found thing.
Did you know the man personally?