You do realize how easy it would be for the police to murder you, plant drugs in your home, and claim you were a “suspected drug dealer”, do you not?
Nowhere does the article or video claim that the victim was a drug dealer, suspected or otherwise.
Nowhere is he accused of a violent crime.
You should think about what you are defending-—remember, the same tactics will be used against Freepers one day. Be careful what you cheer today.
Portraying criminals as pillars of the community or honor students is pretty standard issue reporting. It was satirized in Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities, which came out in 1987, but way predates the book. Sacco and Vanzetti were guilty as sin, but the media lionized them anyway.