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.
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.