ANOTHER DRUG-RELATED DEATH:

SAN ANTONIO — A teenage girl, shot and killed by federal drug agents, was a victim of excessive force from law officers who were investigating her father, relatives and friends say.

Ashley Villarreal, 14, died on Tuesday evening after family members requested that she be taken off life support at Wilford Hall Medical Center.

Those old SNL “X-Police” skits seem rather prophetic, these days.

UPDATE: A reader notes that Mark Kleiman thinks that it’s too early to criticize the agents here. Well, maybe. But if we didn’t have a Drug War — which is a dreadful waste of time, money, liberty and lives — this wouldn’t have happened at all. When you decide that federal drug agents will run around with drawn guns, you decide that a certain number of innocent lives will be lost. Is that worth it? Sometimes — but not in the case of the Drug War.

UPDATE: Another reader points out that I’m agreeing with Atrios. Well, we lefty bloggers tend to agree! Sorry Pejman.