From what little we do know, it was apparent that we had an underage young woman in possession of alcohol on the beach and the cops were initially willing to let her go after determining she wasn't intoxicated. But instead of counting her blessing and getting on with her weekend, she felt compelled to be disrespectful to the cops. Yes, her free speech rights and all. But it is always unwise to be a smart ass with cops, especially when they just cut you a break.
Ironically, if the young woman went on her way, got drunk, and then had a DUI incident later that day, those same cops that cut her a break could be held legally responsible. We would all be attacking the cops for letting an underage drinker just walk away.
I don’t mean to crap on you Sam, this just seems counter-productive in so many ways.
Three fully-trained cops to arrest one wasted teenager? She was that much of a threat? And isn’t that a gross misuse of resources? It doesn’t do anything to reduce real crime, and does reduce public respect and trust for the police (which they NEED in emergencies).
I’ve seen a lot of this lately, where the cops seem to go for the easy “low-hanging fruit”, busting somebody with no weapon and who won’t fight back, rather than going after hard criminals ... doesn’t look very brave