That Carter kid from Arkansas

You don't know what to think.

But you know what you're thinking. The cops killed that kid.

First of all, if I understand correctly that this was sparked by a dime bag of weed, the entire ensuing tragedy can be laid at the foot of our beyond-moronic "war on drugs."

And multiply that by a thousand because this scenario repeats itself every day in America. Once in a hundred times owing to random chance these stories hit the national news.

It happens to young black and hispanic men more than it happens to anyone else, but it happens to the white trash often enough too. When you're young and poor you expect the heel of law and order on your neck sooner or later.

But how can we justify the death of a young man over a bag of pot?