Cops Arrest Girl For Possession Of Water And Ice Cream

[John Titor]

Yet another reason to abolish all licenses . In my time line there are none and this makes for less police and less jails .

 

[rambone]

The Keystone Cops have issued a damage control statement over the weekend. Blaming the women... if they only would have submitted to the strange gang and licked their boots, none of this would have happened.


Clarifying ABC's Involvement in April 11 Charlottesville Incident | Facebook.com

Agents were working in the area, concentrating on underage possession enforcement. An agent observed what appeared to be an underage person in possession of what appeared to be a case of beer, and approached her to investigate. The agent identified herself as a police officer and was displaying her badge. Other agents did not join the incident until the subject refused to cooperate. Rather than comply with the officers' requests, the subject drove off, striking two officers. She was not arrested for possessing bottled water, but for running from police and striking two of them with a vehicle.

The agents were acting upon reasonable suspicion and this whole unfortunate incident could have been avoided had the occupants complied with law enforcement requests. We take all citizen complaints seriously and the matter is currently under review by the ABC Bureau of Law Enforcement.
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The public outcry in the comments section has been overwhelmingly negative. Here are some choice remarks.

Perhaps if they were in camouflage, wore ski masks and carried assault rifles the girls would have recognized them as police officers.

Defending these actions is not going to help ABC's public image. Your agency needs to take responsibility for this outrage.

Your organization is a disgrace and should be de-funded immediately. We don't need a Secret Police to go around and micro-manage Beer sales in the name of Police makework. You even had the nerve to have her falsely arrested to make her into the villain and cover up your own blunder and incompetence. The thought of some buffoon cowboy jumping onto the hood of the girl's vehicle like some kind of rodeo clown is beyond ridiculous. I will be happy to sit on the Jury for the lawsuit when this young woman serves you and make sure that she gets every last taxpayer Dollar and ensure that the Public can no longer afford your "services". Shame on all of you.

what on earth is the big deal about liquor? back in England my father took me to a pub at 14 as is legal for a child to consume alcohol under supervision of a parent - in other words in Europe we grow up with wine at the table so we don't go binge drinking at 18 - your exposure in this has become a global joke you need to suck it up and admit your tactics were wrong plain & simple and wasting public funds to have 7 agents sitting in a supermarket good grief and then having the gall to still press charges that a proper police officer would be embarrassed to file

Wow, you terrorized this young woman and you make excuses? There are a lot of people who carry false badges and they use them to rape and murder women. How stupid can your agency be?

I like the part where you say you take "citizen complaints seriously". That's the best laugh I've had all day. You've shown how you feel about 'citizens' by the weak, lame excuse that " this whole unfortunate incident could have been avoided had the occupants complied with law enforcement requests. " Seriously, you are completely clueless.

This is a perfect example of too many agencies with arresting powers.

You are supposed to be experts in alcohol control but your agent couldn't tell the difference between a case of water and a case of beer in a brightly lit store? Then how do you expect a 20 year old to discern the difference between a police officer and an armed thug in a dark parking lot? Shame on you.

 

[Hotdoger]

Quote:
You are supposed to be experts in alcohol control but your agent couldn't tell the difference between a case of water and a case of beer in a brightly lit store? Then how do you expect a 20 year old to discern the difference between a police officer and an armed thug in a dark parking lot? Shame on you.

Wow! That stung!

 

[IndyDave1776]

You are supposed to be experts in alcohol control but your agent couldn't tell the difference between a case of water and a case of beer in a brightly lit store? Then how do you expect a 20 year old to discern the difference between a police officer and an armed thug in a dark parking lot? Shame on you.

Wow! That stung!

I liked that one too! I get sick and tired of hearing the same old s**t about how ignorance of the law is no excuse, being unaware of pertinent conditions/circumstances is no excuse, if you broke the law, you broke the law, no excuses, but supposed professionals are entitled to be excused for most anything. If they are professionals, they should be held to higher, not lower standards than the rest of us. What amazes me are the people other than police who accept and even defend this.

 

[Fargo]

J. Neil Schulman had this to say about it:

What say our resident ambulance chasers, does she have a case using this suggestion?

He has a point and there could even be some consequences (probably via the disciplinary commission) to whatever commonwealth atty prosecuted it depending on when he knew what had actually happened.

However, there are probably some qualified immunity hurdles to civil liability that are going to have to be cleared and there simply are not enough facts in evidence to be certain whether that is possible.

Criminally, it depends on the US Atty for that district and his grand jury or whether a special Commonwealth's Atty gets appointed to look at it.

Best,

Joe

 

[IndyDave1776]

It would appear that the prosecutors have either developed some sense or else have started to get a bad feeling about the people assembling in front of their offices with pitchforks as they have dropped the asinine felony charges:

Virginia college student arrested after buying bottled water | Fox News

 

[CathyInBlue]

What other forms of trumped up charges, not felonies, are they continuing to press, though.

 

[bmbutch]

Just saw this thread, & am amazed @ the overwhelming idiocy of this group of law enforcement. Also amazed anybody would take the side of said idiots.

They should be fired, & never allowed to work in any career that gives them even an ounce of authority.

 

[mrjarrell]

Well, this was a reasonable time in coming, but I didn't see this high a price tag. I really do hope she wins the pay day and the ABC has to cough up the dough. Maybe then they'll decide to discipline the idiots who got them to this point.

U.Va. student sues state, ABC agents for $40M - WTOP.com

 

[Bunnykid68]

Well, this was a reasonable time in coming, but I didn't see this high a price tag. I really do hope she wins the pay day and the ABC has to cough up the dough. Maybe then they'll decide to discipline the idiots who got them to this point.

U.Va. student sues state, ABC agents for $40M - WTOP.com

Go big or go home, I like it

 

[1775usmarine]

that 40M is probably the number she owes in student loans.

 

[mrjarrell]

Go big or go home, I like it

It's a government agency. The payout has to be made to really hurt, otherwise they learn absolutely nothing. A few grand is chump change to people like that.

 

[Baditude]

easy, settle for 20 Mil and move to Hawaii or something.

 

[AA&E]

Can you offer any conceivable reason for making a judgement on a situation in which you were neither present nor offered any sustainable FACT?

Oh wait... Now that I think about it, you might choose to believe the [news story] as fact when it's anti-LEO but not when it's anti-second amendment. I keep forgetting the ever present double standard on INGO.

From the article - "Charlottesville Commonwealth's Attorney Dave Chapman read Daly's account and said it was factually consistent." "It wouldn't be the right thing to do to prosecute this," he said



Did you not read this, or not understand what it meant?

 

[Kutnupe14]

$40 million? Those guys that stopped her were looking for wrong stuff. They should have been looking for meth or crack.

 

[Destro]

It's a government agency. The payout has to be made to really hurt, otherwise they learn absolutely nothing. A few grand is chump change to people like that.

how can it "really hurt"? It's not like it's a business or anything? It's taxpayer money, not their own money that is getting paid out. They will just raise/create more taxes and everybody loses.

 

[2ADMNLOVER]

how can it "really hurt"? It's not like it's a business or anything? It's taxpayer money, not their own money that is getting paid out. They will just raise/create more taxes and everybody loses.

Everybody except the ABC folks .

 

[halfmileharry]

After a night in a cage. What a proud victory for these "Beverage Control" enforcers. Their entire career path is pathetic.

Bottled-water purchase leads to night in jail for UVa student

Their mindset is pathetic. Thank goodness for the fast food industry so they will be qualified for employment.

 

[churchmouse]

Their mindset is pathetic. Thank goodness for the fast food industry so they will be qualified for employment.

I just can not get my head wrapped around the behavior of those LEO's. Jumping on my hood will get your A$$ kicked LEO or not. Pulling a gun over alleged Beer purchase....seriously.....Epic fail.

 

[Destro]

Everybody except the ABC folks .

exactly, they will just add a line or two to the dept. SOP and call it a day. Even then, just because somebody gets $$$ does not mean the dept. thinks they did anything wrong, they might change nothing, and somebody walks away with $40 millin in taxpayer money, not the ABC's money. Im glad some of the INGOlibbers are not in charge of our national fiscal policy. While I agree we waste alot of money on stupid stuff, writing million dollar checks to people because a cop looked at them "crosswayz" is a joke.