LETTER FROM
THE EDITOR
Under Fire
N THIS WEEK’S issue, Radley Balko
looks at how an unprecedented police
reform movement got its start in
one of America’s most conservative states: Utah.
Radley takes us back to Jan. 4,
2011, when Army veteran Matthew David Stewart’s home in
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Ogden — where he grew marijuana
— was raided by 12 police officers
in the middle of the night. Stewart
exchanged fire with the police for
about 20 minutes. By the end of
the battle, one cop was dead, and
according to various accounts,
between 130 and 250 bullets had
been fired. Stewart landed in prison, where he ended up hanging
himself in May of this year.
An editorial in the Salt Lake
Tribune after the incident ques-
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