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Posted on 07/05/2013 10:55:50 AM PDT by mandaladon
Elizabeth Daly went to jail over a case of bottled water. According to the Charlottesville Daily Progress, shortly after 10 p.m. April 11, the University of Virginia student bought ice cream, cookie dough and a carton of LaCroix sparkling water from the Harris Teeter grocery store at the popular Barracks Road Shopping Center. In the parking lot, a half-dozen men and a woman approached her car, flashing some kind of badges. One jumped on the hood. Another drew a gun. Others started trying to break the windows. Daly understandably panicked. With her roommate in the passenger seat yelling “Go, go, go!” Daly drove off, hoping to reach the nearest police station. The women dialed 911. Then a vehicle with lights and sirens pulled them over, and the situation clarified: The people who had swarmed Daly’s vehicle were plainclothes agents of the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. The agents had thought the sparkling water was a 12-pack of beer. Did the ABC’s enforcers apologize? Not in the slightest. They charged Daly with three felonies: two for assaulting an officer (her vehicle had grazed two agents; neither was hurt) and one for eluding the police. Last week, the commonwealth’s attorney dropped the charges. The agents’ excessive display of force is outrageously disproportionate to the offense they mistakenly thought they witnessed: an underage purchase of alcohol.
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Cops are the muscles of the state. It’s unrealistic to expect cops to be any better than the state and the state has become worse and worse in the last sixty years . I expect the police to become no better nor any different from a street gang except better dressed and better armed.
If all laws were enforced, everyone would be in jail.
Yes, I think so. They are the subject of a third amendment case!
The the beginnings of the new Gestapo under Obama’s reign of terror.
Thank God it wasn’t the SWAT-nazis with their black ninja suits on or those two girls, and any dog that may have been with them, would be dead. Disgraceful.
I have asked this question on this and other threads... but so far no one can answer..
How would the ABC agents have any idea how old the young lady was at the time of purchase?
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand
And they have no intention of ever enforcing such laws against you - unless you become politically inconvenient.
What is the punishment for putting mail in the incorrect address??????
Or are fedgov workers above the law?
One cop could have handled the situation without incident, but a gang of cops are bound to act like a gang. They get thuggish. And then, when one of their superiors with a little common sense should have apologized and dropped the charges, procedure kicked in, and there wasn’t so much as a half a wit to be found. The whole department needs it butt kicked.
no kidding. should have done a drone strike. /sarc
Where’s that quote from? (please lord,, just this once, please don’t let it be from the posted article I didn’t open and read)
“Cops are going nuts?”
Enough of them are that anytime I see a cop outside of my own county I am frankly afraid of them.
Park County, Wyoming Sheriffs’ deputies are uniformly polite and courteous to our family...even when they are deputies we do not personally know.
California cops, OTOH (and aside from the Highway Patrol) are almost all uniformly THUGS. They’re bullies who like to order people around and they love to destroy your stuff when they search things. When we were moving out of California we got stopped by Placer County sheriffs enough to realize that we were being targeted for some reason. Each time they made us unload our truck or trailer on the side of the road and then one time we had to wait several hours for them to get a drug sniffing dog to go over our stuff. They found nothing.
I will NEVER go back to California. It is a police state and they can keep it.
WTF are SEVEN armed cops doing at a shopping center waiting to rain down on little girls?
I guess this municipality is rich and all the bad guys are off the streets.
Or not even that. I was sitting on my deck one summer day when a kestrel smacked into the window at full stoop, breaking its little neck. Beautiful little bird. So I called a taxidermist to see if I could get it stuffed and was told that (1) I couldn't own such a thing without a permit, (2) I couldn't donate it to a school or museum or library unless they had such a permit, (3) I couldn't be in possession of it, and (4) there was no legal way to get rid of it. "Just bury it in the backyard and forget we ever had this conversation," is what she told me, and what I did. I hope the NSA doesn't flag this post for that. Now, there are also eagles hereabouts, and so when I picked up an interesting-looking feather from that same backyard, I became a criminal - can't be in possession of such a thing unless you're a registered member of a Native American tribe. I suspect even having it laying in my backyard was technically in possession.
These are laws passed by people who have zero (or less) technical knowledge of the subject of the laws and apparently not enough knowledge of law itself to keep them from conflicting. These are our self-styled "leaders". Dr. Guillotine, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
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