21-Yr-Old Murdered by Police for Selling Marijuana

Another day, another person murdered for no reason
Chris | InformationLiberation
Apr. 25, 2011

Consuming drugs is not a crime, it's in no way criminal, it violates no one's rights and is an entirely voluntary action. The "war on drugs," on the other hand, deprives people of their life, liberty, happiness and property. It sanctions criminality when done on behalf of the state, cops are "given" the power to murder complete strangers for consuming a substance some bureaucrats arbitrarily declare illegal, while similar substances with slight changes are considered fine and sold in drug stores.

How many people have to die to satisfy the whims of petty bureaucrats? How many have to die because some idiots think because they don't like drugs, and don't support people taking drugs, the government should therefore be empowered to kill those people and deprive them of all their rights? If you support the war on drugs, you support the murder of complete strangers who violated the rights of no one, it's that simple. The pathetic thing is most people who support this idiotic war are so-called "moralists." Some moral code.

Here is the latest horror story from this war on humanity:

LAS VEGAS (CN) - Las Vegas police shot a black man in the face and killed him - for trying to flush a small amount of marijuana down the toilet in his apartment, the man's family says. The family says the police squad "drank alcohol on the job during the relevant time period at issue in this lawsuit."

Trevon Cole, 21, "a vibrant young man full of life and energy," who had just moved to Las Vegas with his pregnant fiancée with the "hope of starting a new life together" and playing football at UNLV was shot to death by Det. Bryan Yant on June 11, 2010, his family says in their federal complaint.

Cole was unarmed when about 11 officers raided his small, one-bedroom apartment in East Las Vegas, according to the complaint. He was watching TV with his fiancée, Sequoia Pearce, when officers destroyed the front door and "broke through a window to raid the sparsely furnished apartment."

Cole ran to the "only bathroom in the apartment and began flushing down the toilet what little marijuana he had in his possession," the complaint states.

As Cole squatted in front of the toilet, Yant kicked in the door and shot him in the side of the face with an AR-15 assault rifle, the family says.

Cole's only crime was that he had "sold an approximate total of 1.8 ounces of marijuana, over the period of a month, to undercover Det. Christopher Cannon," according to the complaint.

Read the full article from Courthouse News here.