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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They are state owned in VA.
“Virginia (Beer and wine ≤14% ABV sold at supermarkets and convenience stores; all liquor stores are run by the state)”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_beverage_control_state
My question was, are they unionized like they are here in PA. My guess is they probably are but perhaps some Freeper from VA can verify.
I am born and raised in Charlottesville, as well as as many generations back that I know of. That Charlottesville is now dead. There are more liberal Yankees than there are “us” now. Growing up I never encountered anyone being mistreated for being different, including black people. I grew up in a very conservative home, where there was never a racial slur spoken. As for ‘back then,’ Yankees need to remember, ‘when in Rome...’ Oddly it is Southerners who are polite and solicitous, despite the War of Northern Aggression. When I circulate now in Charlottesville, I repeatedly encounter non-natives who don’t exhibit simple social skills, things like “excuse me” or “isn’t it a beautiful day.” It is a cultural scandal that non-Southerners dare entitle themselves to look down their noses at the sound of Southern accents. But to the point, these ABC thugs who violated Miss Daly are just part of the same cancer as the IRS persecution, domestic spying and unprecedented corruption. They and every culpable person associated with this incident need to be yanked up hard and pay through the nose. Brutal consequences is the only language they understand. I assure you that these government agents didn’t possess a special kind of radar that located a non-Southerner, in the dark, in a busy crowded parking lot.
Yep. They’ve been given guns and they want to use them. ABC is where you get the lower tier, untrained, bureaucratic, wannabes. These guys were just working out their fantasy.
Lord help us if they ever let the TSA monkeys get weapons to carry.
Because they could put her there that is why. She is very, very fortunate that they did not shoot her. In Water Town, the police demonestrated the contempt they hold the general public for so clearly that even the blind could see it. It was evident to all except some on this forum.
Many moons ago when I lived in Maryland, I worked in a store that was next door to a liquor store and I got to be friends with the owners. One day the Maryland State Police sent in a cadet who was just shy of 21 but looked to be about 30 and he was in uniform to boot. They young guy working behind the counter mistakenly figured that a big burly guy who looked about 30 years old and was wearing a MD State Police uniform (the clerk didn’t know the difference between a cadet uniform or a full State police uniform) and who pulled up in front of the store in a MD State Police car, didn’t need to be carded to buy a bottle of liquor (back then the drinking age for beer and wine was still 18 FWIW).
That was a big mistake on his part and the liquor store, even as they contested on the grounds it was some sort of entrapment, was fined many thousands of dollars for their “infraction” and threatened with loss of their license. IIRC they tried to or did criminally prosecute the clerk too which ironically pretty much ruined his chances of getting into the Navy.
I later worked at another shopping center near another liquor store and for several days there was this “kid” hanging around asking various people to go into the liquor store to buy liquor for him. When he approached me I told him, “First of all no and secondly no because I know you are a State cop”.
“I’m not a cop”, he protested but then I told him “BS. Every afternoon for the last four days, I saw you get out of a State Police car parked across the street”. I told the owners of the liquor store what was going on and the stationed a guy in front of their store to make sure none of their customers fell for it or them getting fined as well. Then the police showed up and threatened the store owner with “obstruction of justice”.
This happened on April 11th. The “authorities” waited until the end of June to dismiss the felony charges against this young lady? They left her twisting in the wind for two and a half months? Disgusting.
Even fake police can look real -
Speaking of undercover cops, back in May 1991 I was helping my parents move back to California from Maine.
After a long road trip across the country, we arrived in the parking lot of a Holiday Inn in Goleta, Calif., just north of Santa Barbara.
We parked in the far end of the parking lot, next to a white van with a number of 30-something guys sitting inside.
The guy behind the steering wheel looked at me when I got out of the car, and I looked directly at him. The first thing I thought was, “These guys are undercover cops.”
A week or two later, after the moving truck arrived and my parents were settled in their new residence, I was watching the local news. Big drug bust at the Holiday Inn. A bunch of drug dealers were shown “proned-out” in the parking lot, and the plain-clothes guys I saw a week or two earlier were cuffing them. Apparently a bunch of drug dealers were renting motel rooms at the Holiday Inn.
Sounds like a POLICE STATE to me.
..and then cops say that they can't "waste time" busting kids for pot.....but they have PLENTY of time to try to set up the public!
Prosecutors withdrew those charges Thursday in Charlottesville General District Court, but Daly still can’t understand why she sat in jail.
You did not respect their authority!
Many small people seek out jobs that provide them positions of authority over others and they do not like it when someone does not play along..
Extremely well said.
Bear also in mind she had recently been warned about the dangers of sexual assault.
Couple that with six armed men attacking her car, and what do you suppose she thought?
The police knew *exactly* what they were doing.
Fire and incarcerate all seven involved officers (the seventh was a woman).
This wasn’t a case of stupidity.
It was calculated.
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