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.
7 comments:
See what happens when you give wannabes a badge? Now imagine if this had been a young black man. Bet he would have been shot. Not out of hate. But because of preconceived fear and prejudice. Sound familiar?
3 young girls being rushed by a half-dozen people. I would have panicked also. Seriously was it that important to scare the bajezus out of these girls because they "might" have a 12 pack of beer. Can they not tell the difference between beer and water. How did they even know that she wasn't 21?
Section 1 Paragraph 32:
"Instill fear with the armed power of the state"...
Seriously over the top unconstitutionally Communist.
5:43 your reference is way out of context here. These girls were completely innocent, someone jumping you from the bushes is a different story. cracker.
Saltine? or Ritz?
Oyster cracker.
Betting there's more to this story then what's been printed
Sounds like the police are way out of line. If you can't use the "N" word, then you can't use the "C" word.map
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