Police/Suspect Altercations

A Minnesota man is dead of an apparent overdose after swallowing drugs during an arrest, and a Washington state man was shot and killed by police as they attempted to arrest him after an undercover drug buy. They are the 37th and 38th domestic drug war fatalities of the year.

The Denver city council votes today on where you can smoke pot, a Tennessee bill equates meth-making with child abuse, there's dissent on drug policy at the UN, India fights a drug menace, and more.

The year's 36th drug war fatality occured Friday night in Fort Worth, Texas. Guy with a gun met cops breaking down his door. Now he's dead.

A Newark, New Jersey, man is dead at the hands of drug police after they said he approached them with a loaded weapon (how did they know?), but angry neighbors had a different version of events.

An Indianapolis man is dead after police said he refused to drop a weapon as they raided his apartment in a dawn drug raid.

A Tennessee meth lab raid leaves one man dead after attempting to flee in his vehicle.

A Houston SWAT team's dawn drug raid ends with an armed homeowner shot dead.

A Texas marijuana grower and a California man who might have been a drug dealer are the year's 31st and 32nd drug war fatalities.

The police killers of ex-Marine Jose Guerena during a drug raid gone bad escaped charges, but their employers will pay millions.

An unarmed alleged meth dealer was gunned down by undercover California cops in a restaurant parking lot after they said he threatened them. The dead man's family would like some answers. Good luck with that.