*The planet’s full of cops who figured out that the drugs are winning the Drug War, but this Texan ex-cop who’s an American media prankster and using video-surveillance entrapment techniques against American cops… man, that’s eerie. That’s just chock-full of social not-okayness.
http://trueslant.com/stephenwebster/2010/02/25/barry-cooper-drug-war-insurgent/
Barry Cooper: Drug War Insurgent
To call Barry Cooper “over the top” is an understatement.
You may have seen him on the pages of Maxim, or during one of his many appearances on CNN, Fox News and Spike TV. He’s the cop who turned against the drug war, whose been trying to sell a self-explanatory reality show he calls “KopBusters.” Yeah, that guy.
In American pop culture right now, there’s nobody quite like him. As one of the former top drug cops working the Texas highways, he was ferocious, bringing down hundreds of people for possessing even tiny amounts of an illegal substance.
In his new life as an anti-prohibition crusader and activist filmmaker, he’s just as ferocious, but now it’s his former colleagues in law enforcement who are sweating his intimidating gaze.
He set up a fake pot grow house in Odessa and tricked cops to crash through the door without proper legal authorization. In the process, he helped bust former drug prisoner Yolanda Madden out of a Texas jail. He once engaged in a Mexican standoff with police in front of his home in Austin, while wielding the biggest damn flashlight you’ve ever seen. He even flipped and became an informant for police in Combine, Texas, helping put the kibosh on a former police chief-turned accused child porn fiend’s freedom.
All of them, ass-wild tales to tell. Each true.
Cooper is on a self-described mission to free America’s pot prisoners and take down the abusive cops he once sought to emulate. In the terminology of war, Barry is an insurgent, lobbing bombs into the fourth estate as his form of penance for all the people he put behind bars on drug offenses…
http://www.maysville-online.com/news/local/article_2086da7a-24d6-11df-aa83-001cc4c03286.html
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