Last Thursday afternoon a nicely dressed woman carrying three A-2 assault rifles walked out of the DA’s office on the ground floor of the Mendocino County Courthouse.
It was two days after Mariano Lopez Fernandez, 31, of Boonville, was shot and killed by three deputies in a marijuana garden in the Cahto country west of Laytonville.
The deputies had used these three guns, the same combat guns American troops use in Iraq and Afghanistan, to shoot Fernandez.
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