Girl buys water, spends night in jail

[Nightfyre]

I found this story interesting/entertaining.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow...181104442.html

Felony charges were dropped on Thursday against a 20-year-old University of Virginia student who says she panicked when undercover agents from the state's Alcohol Beverage Control division mistook her water purchase for beer.

According to Charlottesville (Va.) Daily Progress, the student, Elizabeth Daly, was walking to her car on April 11 at approximately 10:15 p.m. with a box of sparkling water, cookie dough and ice cream she had just bought from a local supermarket when the agents—six men and one woman, all in plainclothes—approached suspecting the box, a blue carton of LaCroix sparkling water, to be a 12-pack of beer. One jumped on the hood of her SUV; another pulled out a gun, Daly said, as her roommates seated inside looked on in horror.

"They were showing unidentifiable badges after they approached us, but we became frightened, as they were not in anything close to a uniform," Daly wrote in an account submitted to the court. "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's roommate in the front passenger seat told her to "go, go, go"—and that's what she did, apparently "grazing" two of the agents in the process.

The students called 911 as they left the parking lot, police said, and were pulled over by another agent driving a vehicle with lights and sirens, Charlottesville Commonwealth Attorney Dave Chapman told the paper.

Daly apologized when she realized who they were, Chapman said, but agents arrested Daly and charged her with two counts of assaulting a law enforcement officer and one count of eluding police—each carrying a maximum penalty of five years in prison and $2,500 in fines. She spent the night in Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail.

"This has been an extremely trying experience," Daly wrote. "It is something to this day I cannot understand or believe has come to this point."

Either can Chapman.

"It wouldn't be the right thing to do to prosecute this," he said.

Nonetheless, Chapman "stood by the agents' decision to file charges, citing faith in a process that yielded an appropriate resolution."

"You don't know all the facts until you complete the investigation," he said.

Is it common practice to draw a weapon on an underage person suspected of purchasing alcohol?

[Bwana]

Originally Posted by Donger

This same story is in DC, BTW.

They aren't cops. They are ABC agents. She and her friend had just spent a few hours hearing about rape victim stories.

The agents were in plainclothes (they don't wear uniforms). They did show their badges. She already apologized and admitted she over-reacted.

The charges against her have been dropped.

WTF is an ABC agent? Is that like kindergarten for beginning cops? It would seem so after reading that story.

[mikey23545]

It doesn't seem very excessive - it seems mother****ing insane.

[Donger]

Originally Posted by Bwana

WTF is an ABC agent? Is that like kindergarten for beginning cops? It would seem so after reading that story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol..._control_state

[Bwana]

Originally Posted by Donger

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol..._control_state

It would seem the good state of VA is wasting the tax payers money with that outfit.

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by mikey23545

It doesn't seem very excessive - it seems mother****ing insane.

agreed, and we don't often agree.

[mikey23545]

Originally Posted by Donger

This same story is in DC, BTW.

They aren't cops. They are ABC agents. She and her friend had just spent a few hours hearing about rape victim stories.

The agents were in plainclothes (they don't wear uniforms). They did show their badges. She already apologized and admitted she over-reacted.

The charges against her have been dropped.

Are you actually defending these idiots, idiots who drew a weapon on a couple of teenage girls who they suspected of buying alcohol illegally?

You get more bizarre everyday.

And of course no one has ever flashed fake badges before in order to commit a crime.

[Bowser]

Originally Posted by Bwana

It would seem the good state of VA is wasting the tax payers money with that outfit.

No shit, especially if they get hit with some "pain and suffering/mental anguish" suit.


I'm still hung up on the idiots jumping on the hood of her car and pulling their guns, even if Rain Man's theory made a ton of sense.

[mikey23545]

Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla

agreed, and we don't often agree.

There's number two.

[Donger]

Originally Posted by mikey23545

Are you actually defending these idiots, idiots who drew a weapon on a couple of teenage girls who they suspected of buying alcohol illegally?

You get more bizarre everyday.

And of course no one has ever flashed fake badges before in order to commit a crime.

I'm not sure that I need to defend them. They were doing their job (lawfully enforcing the law) and the females freaked out and fled. Law enforcement officers tend to get a bit annoyed when you flee.

As to getting more bizarre by the day, I'd suggest you take a peek in the mirror, Mikey. You've been off the rocker since Snowden. It's a shame.

[Lonewolf Ed]

I worked in a liquor store for 20 years and I never knew ABC were armed. They're dicks, but carrying guns, too? I am glad I moved on from that job.

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by Donger

I'm not sure that I need to defend them. They were doing their job (lawfully enforcing the law) and the females freaked out and fled. Law enforcement officers tend to get a bit annoyed when you flee.

As to getting more bizarre by the day, I'd suggest you take a peek in the mirror, Mikey. You've been off the rocker since Snowden. It's a shame.

What law did she initially break that led to them jumping on her car?

[Donger]

Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla

What law did she initially break that led to them jumping on her car?

Fleeing from law enforcement officers, I presume.

[Hammock Parties]

When law enforcement officers are completely unrecognizable, fleeing is understandable.

****ing idiot cops are responsible for this.

[Donger]

Originally Posted by Alex Smith HATER

When law enforcement officers are completely unrecognizable, fleeing is understandable.

****ing idiot cops are responsible for this.

They showed their badges, GoChiefs, as you know.

[GloucesterChief]

Originally Posted by Donger

They showed their badges, GoChiefs, as you know.

Yeah, no one has ever impersonated the cops before to commit a crime.