“They told us that they were going to burn the house down, and they were going to fire us up after dark.”
In 1990, for 48 Hours, I covered what was described as a “ten-minute war.” Roughly 300 shots were fired in a Tacoma, Washington neighborhood between a group of U.S. Army rangers and local drug dealers. Only, it wasn’t a government operation, but rather the result of government failure.
This wasn’t how the War on Drugs was supposed to be fought.
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