Zach Weismueller on Another Drug Bust Gone Bad

On a sweltering
summer morning in the California desert, deputies looking for
methamphetamines and bearing automatic weapons barged into the home
of Eugene Mallory, an 80-year-old retired engineer living a quiet
life in the small community of Littlerock. Moments later, Mallory
lay in his bed bleeding to death from six bullets fired from an MP5
9mm submachine gun. The officers found no meth on the property. As
Zach Weismueller of Reason TV writes, the murky circumstances that
led to the shooting are now the subject of a federal lawsuit.

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