SWAT Team Kills 69-year-old Man For Having Prescription Painkillers

[Serpo]

SWAT Team Kills 69-year-old Man For Having Prescription Painkillers
Posted by Real News Reporter on June 23rd, 2011
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Dailypress

Guns and four bottles of prescription painkillers — three of them empty — were among the items seized after a drug raid at a Hampton home Saturday led to the homeowner’s death during a shootout with police.

William A. Cooper, 69, was shot at about 10 a.m. after police — executing a search warrant seeking controlled prescription painkillers — forced entry into his home on Clifton Street in Wythe.


Police say Cooper opened fire on them in the home, and they had no choice but to shoot back. A friend of Cooper’s says he thinks Cooper must have been startled by the raid and believed his home was being invaded by criminals.

The list of seized items, filed Tuesday in Hampton Circuit Court, included one empty bottle of OxyContin and three bottles of Oxycodone-acetaminophen — one containing pills and two of them empty. OxyContin and Oxycodone-acetaminophen are controlled substances that are highly sought on the black market.

Friends said Cooper used a cane, suffered from knee and back pain, and took a lot of pain medicine. The list of seized items doesn’t include whether or not the prescriptions were valid ones in Cooper’s name.

“We did locate evidence that supports the charge of distribution of illegal narcotics,” police spokesman Jason Price said Tuesday.

The list of confiscated items includes 16 other pill bottles — for drugs used to treat symptoms ranging from arthritis to diabetes to seizures to heart disease.

A confidential informant had told police that Cooper was selling methadone, Percocet (one trade name for Oxycodone-acetaminophen) and other prescription drugs from his home. Methadone was not among the items seized.

Other seized items included Cooper’s wallet, $903 in cash, his 2000 Lexus automobile — allegedly connected to the drug sales — as well as a vehicle title and “financial documents.”

Also confiscated from Cooper’s home — under a separate warrant issued after the shootout — were 16 guns, including revolvers, pistols, rifles and shotguns. Cartridge cases, bullets and other items also were seized.

Also on Tuesday, Price said police found no evidence that a stray bullet from the shootout made its way to a baseball field that runs 150 to 200 feet behind Clifton Street — separated by a creek and dense brush.

Rita Roby, a coach of a girls softball team playing at the field, said Tuesday that there were about 100 people at the field at the time of the shooting, including ball players, spectators and coaches.

Roby said that she was huddling with her team at the edge of the field when they heard about five bullets.

One of her players, she said, felt something whiz past her shirt. Roby said she can’t believe police engaged in a shootout so close to a ball field where children were playing ball.

“It really makes me angry,” she said. “It’s really sloppy.”

Price said a bullet did go through the back of Cooper’s home, but police have not recovered it.

“We checked the field with metal detectors, and interviewed people there,” he said. “We found no evidence that a bullet went into the ball field,” or that it had whizzed past the girl’s shirt.

Price noted that the field is not visible from Cooper’s home because of the dense brush.
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[Canadian-guerilla]

“We did locate evidence that supports the charge of distribution of illegal narcotics,” police spokesman Jason Price said Tuesday

sounds like cops " cover your ass " talk

[Horn]

What was the illegal narcotic?

[Dogman]

Several slightly different story's out there.

http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/local_news/hampton/man-shot-by-police-was-heavily-armed

Man shot by police was heavily armed

Police found 16 guns and ammunition

Updated: Tuesday, 21 Jun 2011, 8:17 PM EDT
Published : Tuesday, 21 Jun 2011, 8:17 PM EDT
HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) - The neighbors of a 69-year-old Hampton man who was shot and killed by police (http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/local_news/hampton/officer-involved-shooting-in-hampton-) , said he was a nice man and a good neighbor. But police said he was heavily armed and distributing prescription drugs.
Hampton police, working on a tip, served a search warrant on a house at 137 Clifton Street. Little did they know, they would find William Cooper, 69, heavily armed. Police found 16 guns and plenty of ammunition.
"The public also needs to know not only did we verbalize police, we uniform officer at the front door. Officers had police on their chest and their backs. It was very evident we were the police," said Cpl. Jason Price with the Hampton Police Division.
Easter Tate lives next door. Tate did not hear the knock and announcement at Cooper's home, but heard what happened next.
"I heard all the shots, but I thought fire crackers, truthful with Fourth of July coming," said Tate.
Police broke through the door and they said Cooper fired at them. Police returned fire, shot Cooper, and he later died at the hospital.
In the gun fire, someone fired a shot through the front of the house and the bullet landed in a house on the next street over. A woman was home but she was not hurt.
Police found what they were looking for - 20 different prescription drugs. Police call it evidence of illegal prescription drug possession and distribution.
Tate said she never saw people coming and going. "Everything was quiet," Tate said. "Only thing he ever told me was that he was having trouble with his leg."
Police said that in the last two officer-involved shootings in the last two years, both involved the illegal distribution of prescription drugs.


Posted at 07:16 AM ET, 06/21/2011 Police: Va. man shot dead by officers fired at them

By The Associated Press

HAMPTON, Va. — Hampton police say a man killed by officers shot at them with a handgun as they were trying to executive a search warrant.
Police identified the man as 69-year-old William A. Cooper of Hampton.
Media outlets report that two officers were executing a narcotics search warrant at about 10 a.m. Saturday when Cooper opened fire. The officers shot Cooper. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The officers have been placed on administrative leave with pay. The police department is investigating the incident.

By The Associated Press | 07:16 AM ET, 06/21/2011


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/crime-scene/post/police-va-man-shot-dead-by-officers-fired-at-them/2011/06/21/AGVYsAeH_blog.html

[Horn]

Police say Cooper opened fire on them in the home, and they had no choice but to shoot back.

Exiting the house would have been like, sensible.

[Canadian-guerilla]

maybe the cops have something against guys named William Cooper

[keehah]

Police seem to shot William Coopers with bum legs often.

[Edit-you beat me to the post CG, I like the way you think. :) ]


Police said that in the last two officer-involved shootings in the last two years, both involved the illegal distribution of prescription drugs.
Was the other police shooting during a raid as well? Obviously then the local police are not getting enough of a cut of the prescription drug black market, nor are the Feds bothering with it. ;)

[po boy]

Police seem to shot William Coopers with bum legs often.

[Edit-you beat me to the post CG, I like the way you think. :) ]


Was the other police shooting during a raid as well? Obviously then the local police are not getting enough of a cut of the prescription drug black market, nor are the Feds bothering with it. ;)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rnm_8tSJFY

Top comment "Stop killing Bill Cooper already..."

[Dogman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rnm_8tSJFY

[madfranks]

Hampton police, working on a tip, served a search warrant on a house at 137 Clifton Street. Little did they know, they would find William Cooper, 69, heavily armed. Police found 16 guns and plenty of ammunition.

Once again, the mere possession of firearms and ammo is considered adequate reason to shoot you dead in your tracks. People, keep your guard up; this could easily be any of us. What would you do if your door got blasted open and armed thugs came into your house? I'll tell you what I'd do - I'd lock and load and kill as many of them as I could.

[Ponce]

His age, his living alone, his pain pill........is all a copy of myself who would defend himself the same way.....the only difference is that I don't sell my pain pill, as a matter of fact I don't even take them, but have them for "just in case".

[po boy]

Once again, the mere possession of firearms and ammo is considered adequate reason to shoot you dead in your tracks. People, keep your guard up; this could easily be any of us. What would you do if your door got blasted open and armed thugs came into your house? I'll tell you what I'd do - I'd lock and load and kill as many of them as I could.

Might as well, your guilty till proven... well your just guilty.

You could take a deal and have to sell of all your weapons till you can prove you learned your lesson then have to buy them back if your deemed no menace to society.

I love how they downplay they stray bullets in the story as well.

[TheNocturnalEgyptian]

What was the illegal narcotic?

State grade heroin, in pill form.

[Tumbleweed]

There's something in common with all these stories of the police executing someone. There was a snitch that sent the cops to kill them and the cops were happy to oblige. Maybe if these things are to stop people need to concentrate on the snitches.

[gunDriller]

“We did locate evidence that supports the charge of distribution of illegal narcotics,” police spokesman Jason Price said Tuesday.

TRANSLATION -

"We, the Police, work for the Pharmaceutical Companies."

[po boy]

There's something in common with all these stories of the police executing someone. There was a snitch that sent the cops to kill them and the cops were happy to oblige. Maybe if these things are to stop people need to concentrate on the snitches.

Who's doing the killing?
Plenty of other videos with no snitches involved.
I think these protect and serve boys need to start thinking about what is going to happen when they are just another joe broke ass six pack on the street.
The cya stories are getting real weak real fast for anyone with a IQ over the double digits.

[madfranks]

His age, his living alone, his pain pill........is all a copy of myself who would defend himself the same way.....the only difference is that I don't sell my pain pill, as a matter of fact I don't even take them, but have them for "just in case".

He wasn't selling his pain pills, that's simply the only excuse the cops could make to cover themselves after murdering him.

[po boy]

Wish I could find my Blacks 1st ed most so called law enforcement today wear a Badge of Fraud.

Oh well here so Pantera instead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP-WFxdQcJQ&feature=related

[midnight rambler]

Once again, the mere possession of firearms and ammo is considered adequate reason to shoot you dead in your tracks. People, keep your guard up; this could easily be any of us. What would you do if your door got blasted open and armed thugs came into your house? I'll tell you what I'd do - I'd lock and load and kill as many of them as I could.

A reasonable man or woman would recommend establishing both an inner and outer perimeter. Then when there are 'gooks inside the wire' you know exactly what to do.

[willie pete]

Once again, the mere possession of firearms and ammo is considered adequate reason to shoot you dead in your tracks. People, keep your guard up; this could easily be any of us. What would you do if your door got blasted open and armed thugs came into your house? I'll tell you what I'd do - I'd lock and load and kill as many of them as I could.

Remember what that cop told me,....I'm not there to play fair, I'm there to win and IF that means me cold-cocking you, I Will........Look; in any contact with the police, they have a free "meal ticket", or immunity...that gives them unlimited power against you, the cop "buzz-line" is: " I was in fear of my life" as soon as they say that, it's open season on your ass.....and it's magnified with these para-military SWAT raids, when they go in, 98% of the time they're GOING to shoot someone and a pet (imprints a greater psychological fear in the mind)....it's my opinion, anyone with that mindset HAS psychotic features

[gunDriller]

see that other thread -

http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?51291-New-Study-Fluoride-Can-Damage-the-Brain-Avoid-Use-in-Children

"New Study: Fluoride Can Damage the Brain - Avoid Use in Children"

Can't help but wonder if the SWAT team got a little too much fluoride in their diet.

That hypothesis would be consistent would be with their behaving like un-thinking automatons.

[Santa]

see that other thread -

http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?51291-New-Study-Fluoride-Can-Damage-the-Brain-Avoid-Use-in-Children

"New Study: Fluoride Can Damage the Brain - Avoid Use in Children"

Can't help but wonder if the SWAT team got a little too much fluoride in their diet.

That hypothesis would be consistent would be with their behaving like un-thinking automatons.

And to think, these overweight moronic automatons are in every town growing stronger and more protected by the day.