Let me preface by saying I am not a "radical right wing Militia nut, however I have listened to and read much of what William Cooper was about and believed in over the past ten years. I did not agree with all of what he had to say and I would not call myself a Cooper fan or follower, but some of what he said had merit.
To be sure we do not, as yet, know what went on in this particular scenario, but I can tell you from what has been describe thus far this type of police action is fairly common with the "constituionalist" type of patriots (of course the term patriot means different things to different people; some think it means total obediance to Fed Gov; to others it means one who believes in the litteral interpretation of the US Consitution). At least two of these "consitutionalist" types were killed in similar fashion in Ohio over the past several years, and there are numerous examples from other states as well. The warrants typically are small time BS and the situtations are designed to provoke confrontation.