January 11, 2010
Tarika Wilson, Jonathan Ayers,
and Gonzalo Guizan were each killed in paramilitary drug operations
in the last two years. None of the three were the actual targets of
the investigations that led to their deaths. Reason Senior
Editor Radley Balko looks at the three cases, and how three decades
of battlefield rhetoric have enabled authorities to write off
tragedies like these as mere collateral damage in the continuing
war to stop people from getting high.
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