Police/Suspect Altercations

LAPD narcs encountered a homeless guy cutting drugs on the street, then shot and killed him when he turned toward them still holding the knife. That's drug war killing #25 for the year.

A dawn drug raid in Pennsylvania ended with police shooting and killing a meth cook in his bedroom after they said he pulled a shotgun on them.

Mexicans marched against drug war mayhem by the tens of thousands over the weekend, but the hit men didn't even break stride.

April was the deadliest month so far in Mexico's prohibition-related violence, with authorities reporting 1,402 killings.

Was it an attempted rip-off of prospective dope and gun buyers? Hard to say, but one man is dead after undercover narcs and the people they were there to bust got into a gunfight.

More mass graves have been found, and the gruesome killings continue.

Skinning people alive!? Just when you thought it couldn't get any more gruesome.

This year's death toll has surpassed 8,000, and a Ciudad Juarez newspaper asks the cartels to tell them what they can safely print.

A 24-year-old Toledo, Ohio, man is dead after firing on police who came to arrest him on drug charges.

Just when you thought it couldn't possibly get worse... 116 bodies turn up in a series of mass graves just south of the border.