Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Virginia police kill 69 year old man in his own home over "illegal" prescription drugs

Americans are armed to the teeth, and it's drilled into them to defend their homes at all cost. Then the moronic police act surprised that people actually do so when they think their home is being invaded by armed thugs.

Which it was...

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.


They also did the Montreal thing, and wild bullets hitting neigbouring houses, luckily without injuries. But hey, they got to kill a 69 year old prescription pill pusher, so all is good...right?

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