It's the smell of another innocent man being killed in a pointless civil war. While politicians continue to laugh off the idea of legalizing marijuana people all across the country are suffering from the effects of prohibition. In this case a child is going to have to live without her father for the rest of her life.
Sequioa Pearce had to kneel before Las Vegas police officers who held her at gunpoint in her bedroom Friday night.
The 20-year-old, who is nine months pregnant, did not know what was happening in the darkened room. She could see the bathroom and her fiancé, who was reflected in the mirror.
He too was being held at gunpoint as officers told him to get on the floor. He met her gaze in the mirror and saw her kneel. She watched him put his hands up.
"All right, all right," he said to police, Pearce recounted Monday.
She heard a gunshot and screamed. The man she was to marry slid and fell to the floor, blood pouring from a gunshot wound to his face.
She saw him breathing before officers rushed her out of the apartment. Trevon Cole, 21, died minutes later.
Pearce, who is scheduled to give birth today to a daughter, KaLynn Cole, will raise her baby alone.
"I just feel like they stole everything from me," Pearce said. "They stole it all."
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Big thanks to the Las Vegas Review Journal for picking up on this story.
Just thought people needed a little reminder that prohibition is still killing more people then any plant ever could.