Posted on 06/29/2013 6:34:09 AM PDT by massmike
When a half-dozen men and a woman in street clothes closed in on University of Virginia student Elizabeth Daly, 20, she and two roommates panicked.
That led to Daly spending a night and an afternoon in the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail. Her initial offense? Walking to her car with bottled water, cookie dough and ice cream just purchased from the Harris Teeter in the Barracks Road Shopping Center for a sorority benefit fundraiser.
A group of state Alcoholic Beverage Control agents clad in plainclothes approached her, suspecting the blue carton of LaCroix sparkling water to be a 12-pack of beer. Police say one of the agents jumped on the hood of her car. She says one drew a gun. Unsure of who they were, Daly tried to flee the darkened parking lot. "They were showing unidentifiable badges after they approached us, but we became frightened, as they were not in anything close to a uniform," she recalled Thursday in a written account of the April 11 incident.
"I couldn't put my windows down unless I started my car, and when I started my car they began yelling to not move the car, not to start the car. They began trying to break the windows. My roommates and I were ... terrified," Daly stated.
Charlottesville Commonwealth's Attorney Dave Chapman read Daly's account and said it was factually consistent.
Prosecutors say she apologized profusely when she realized who the agents were. But that wasn't good enough for ABC agents, who charged her with three felonies. Prosecutors withdrew those charges Thursday in Charlottesville General District Court, but Daly still can't understand why she sat in jail.
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The whole society gets dumber, and we’re surprised that LEOs fall right along with it?
What happens when our military is nothing but the new-age morons we’re churning out? We’ll be like the UN peace keeping forces that rape and pillage.
20 years from now we won’t be able to make fun of groups like the UN because we’ll be worse, if we don’t fall apart and start killing each other before then.
People say “hit the reset button”, but that only works if you either secede from the other 50% of the country, or kill them.
We are screwed. There’s going to be a whole lot of surprised people when it comes crashing down, too.
Being a Hokie, I see no problem with this. :)
I have an uncle who worked in Charlottesville, VA for over a decade. The locals gave him a pretty hard time for being a Yankee (even though he was a fishin’, tough guy Yankee). Is it possible that these gals were from out of state and therefore worthy of special attention by the local LEO?
Unrelated: the LaCroix box is in shades of pastel blue that could not possible be mistaken for any beer I have ever seen.
“The women dialed 911 as they pulled out of the parking lot to report what was happening and ask whether the agents were police officers. Daly said she was planning to drive to a police station. She stopped the SUV nearby for an agent driving a vehicle with lights and sirens, Chapman said.”
Sounds like the kids did the right thing here. If they were members of another sub-culture in this country, they would have sucker punched someone and went mma on them.
Good to see it come back ... especially now with 3D printing.
ONE thing we can't manufacture, though ... the will to kill.
SOMEone has to pull the trigger and MEAN it.
Alcoholic Beverage Commissions tend to attract Barney Fifes as enforcers, even here in Texas. I was at a bicycle race (USCF sanctioned) in Tyler, TX (Smith County being a dry county) in 1991, when I was accused by one enforcer of advertising for Lone Star Beer. My offense was riding for Lone Star Racing Team, whose sole sponsor was Katy Schwinn. Not good enough. With his reasoning one could not sell or use Lone Star Natural Gas, Lone Star Steel, or Lone Star Cement.
over beer... these Rambo/Rambet wannabe's are getting out of control and should all goto jail before they kill somebody
Whew! That was close!
At least they have her finger-prints and a cheek swab, right?
Cops have only two modes: donuts and “get the assholes.”
Obviously we need a half a dozen less Jack Booted Thugs employed in America. The police have become a gang of thugs. Time to take away all the military gear and put them in uniforms.
Oh, and make them OBEY the law they serve.
Corruption flows down hill.
The good news is, one of these days, these ass-clowns will meet up with someone who isn’t terrified of them. They always do.
All those cops should be beaten and then fired.
They all need to be arrested-— the cops that is
You have to remember that most of the people who are getting these jobs are products of a 35 year failed education system. Plus, they are taught to be afraid of everything and everyone. Then if they have a confrontation, even one like this, they have to have therapy to compensate for their trauma.
Perhaps they should try knowing all the fact before they complete the Arrest. This was a fishing expedition, and strictly against the law. Damn good thing she was not CCW. These cops keep breaking the law by playing undercover swat team for beers they are going to end up being killed or killing someone else.
Before the "Change" cops had to have a reason and a warrant to arrest people. Not just arrest people looking for a reason.
Disgusting. Fire them ALL including the Chief.
Maybe, just maybe, a UVa student who becomes a gun owner and conservative...it could happen....
No Skittles or tea?
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