Mario Paz

Re the El Monte police SWAT team’s slaying of Mario Paz, Aug. 31: It is worth noting that, once again, the cops enforcing the laws against marijuana have killed more people than the drug has.

CLIFFORD A. SCHAFFER

Canyon Country

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Please help me with this one: A paramilitary team is dispatched to a suspect’s house, shoots off the front and rear door locks, tosses in a “flash-bang” grenade and storms inside without warning. Might reasonable people have cause to believe that their lives are seriously being threatened and try to defend themselves with whatever means possible?

DANIEL BARKLEY

Irvine