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Barry and Candi Cooper speak out about their arrest

More: Barry Cooper to sue Williamson County for $30 million

For the first time since their arrest by the Williamson County Sheriff’s Department, Barry Cooper and his wife Candi are speaking out about their attempt to catch an officer in Liberty Hill, Texas stealing money and the police retaliation that ended in officers raiding their home and carting away all their computers, files, digital media and Barry, who stayed in Williamson County jail for two days — for an alleged misdemeanor.

He’s back in the second episode of “BackTalk,” being promoted via Cooper’s Web site. It’s just Barry’s way to interact with fans, but he has some worthwhile comments and revealing insights into what happened and why.

I do want to make it clear to readers — almost 30,000 of whom clicked on my three prior reports for True/Slant on Cooper’s exploits (thank you, seriously) — that I’m not angling to cast myself as Barry’s mouthpiece and I pretty much turn a skeptical eye toward everything.

Rule number one for journalists: dig into your source.

I’ve been sporadically writing about Barry Cooper for almost 18 months and the narrative keeps getting stranger. Thing is, much as I’ve dug into Cooper’s case and background, or just checked out little details about events he’d relayed to me to judge the accuracy of his recall, he’s thus far proved every bit as legitimate as one would hope.

I add that cautionary note because Cooper fund-raises a bit in the video that follows and it’s not the intent of your humble narrator to use my space or your time for advertising of any kind. That said, the most pertinent part of the video, in my opinion, fall between 1:12 and 21:10. Everything else is pot-flavored butter.

For every bit as flamboyant and seemingly ADHD-fueled as his stunts are, Cooper is coming from somewhere real, tapping into a pain that’s rife across America, which imprisons a greater percentage of its population than any other industrialized nation — an incredible number of those prisoners being charged with drug offenses.

Perhaps his arrest, atrocious as it may be, is karmic in a way. Some would say, observing the series of events on its face, that he brought it on himself. Maybe, but I don’t think he did anything illegal, and the chief of police in Liberty Hill called his actions “a service.”

Arresting hundreds of fellow Americans and throwing them into the cold, violent, freedom-less reality of prison for victimless crimes is a thing that can stain a the soul of a repentant man like Barry. Perhaps it has. But did he deserve it? I can only pontificate; we mortals don’t see that much detail in the fabric of it all. Who’s to say?

But still: armed men wearing similar clothing did raid Cooper’s home and take all his shit. That’s reason enough for me to bring you this. Just watch.
killerweed420 Reviewed by killerweed420 on . Kopbuster Sues Barry Cooper sueing gangster cops for $30 million.lol C/P Barry and Candi Cooper speak out about their arrest More: Barry Cooper to sue Williamson County for $30 million For the first time since their arrest by the Williamson County Sheriff’s Department, Barry Cooper and his wife Candi are speaking out about their attempt to catch an officer in Liberty Hill, Texas stealing money and the police retaliation that ended in officers raiding their home and carting away all their computers, Rating: 5