Posted on 03/26/2014 10:44:06 PM PDT by Ken H
A University of Virginia student charged last year with assaulting Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control agents attempting to stop her for underage possession beer that turned out to be sparkling water has filed a $40 million lawsuit against the state and seven agents.
Among other things, Elizabeth K. Daly’s 47-page suit, filed Tuesday in Richmond Circuit Court, alleges malicious prosecution, failure to train ABC agents appropriately, and six counts of assault and battery.
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Bottled-water purchase leads to night in jail for UVa student
Thanks for the update. I was particularly incensed by this story last year when it first broke.
Good thing all the violent crime is taken care of so the cops can round up all the “sparkling water” bandits and under age beer drinkers.
With a gun drawn---I think 40 million is more reasonable than those monkeys.
as a va tax payer i consider this money well spent......what a bunch of maroons......have never heard if the bozos were punished at all
The problem is politicians, and that includes Chiefs of Police and the heads of these renegade agencies, do not want to hire honest, moral, and decent people like you. They have an agenda, and that agenda is one of empowering themselves and the government at all levels to subjugate the free citizens of our great country.
These sorry excuses for Human beings think they are not only smarter than us (they are not nor will they ever be) but they have some kind of right to tell us how to live every second of our lives. Most of these people are power hungry cretins who do not know the definition of hubris.
Forty mil seems cheap to me. She’s lucky the LEO yahoos didn’t shoot her while they were at it. Can a judge order that the forty mil get taken out of their assets?
Great point SargeK.
As the father of a 20 yeard old woman at UVA I would also pursue personal charges aganist them and would make it the campaign issue in that county for anyone running for office.
I think this is an issue where liberals and conservatives would come together
Most of these lawsuits are trying to make a point.
You’d be surprised how many times lawsuits can be avoided with a sincere apology and the promise that steps will be taken to keep the incident from happening again.
But when hospitals, doctors, and the cops stand strong (or double-down, as in this case) now the person who was wronged is p*ssed. Not only that, but they feel a moral imperative to stop this from happening to someone else.
Many years ago, there was a test study at a hospital where they tried going against the advice of lawyers and simply admitted mistakes and saying they were sorry. Lawsuits dropped dramatically (By 70% in one year, if I remember correctly). It seems that people aren’t out for the money - the money is the only way to hurt the big wrong-doers.
$40 mil - settled for ten percent of that - would hurt the department enough that action would have to be taken.
Nothing will change until it hurts. I think $40 million is fine. Too bad it wont come out of the agents pockets.
All of this for a supposed case of underage drinking?!
Nothing hurts more than a punch to the wallet.
No lesson learned there. The only way to ensure that things like that don’t happen again is to actually make all involved PERSONALLY responsible for their actions.....period!
They’ll end up getting a promotion.
Their bosses will as well.
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
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I hate to think of where I would be today if faced with the situation these 3 youngsters were in.
Especially with the so called ‘knock out’ game, with the incident taking place in a Super Market parking lot, I do know that I would have drawn and very probably been killed.
THEN they would really have time to ‘get their story right’.
How can these ‘IDIOTS’ conduct such an operation without a uniformed officer or at least a marked car involved?
I am NOT a fan of lawsuits but this is surely a case where one is justified, and just for spite - DON’T SETTLE, make the case go to trial where these ‘IDIOTS’ are forced to stand up in public and explain themselves.
The only crappy part is the settlement will have to come from taxpayers funds, the ideal thing would be to make THEM pay, or at least tie up anything they have or hope to have.
Of course in todays world they will all ‘retire’ on some sort of disability and with food stamps and various welfare checks ‘we’ would lose double....
Sue - The - F&^% - Bastards!
Normally, I don't and this case is one of many examples why I feel this way.
The Democrats control most of the government in Va. This will disappear quickly.
” Normally I give law enforcement the
benefit of the doubt.”
And cops have learned to abuse that grace. The rediculousness of cop mistakes has grown significantly to things like the newspaper ladies getting shot.
And truly, cops are not so nearly as understanding of our mistakes as they expect us to be of theirs. Like swat raids. A cop accidentally misidentifies a person as a threat and kills them, opps. Turn it around where a confused person pops a cop, they want murder 1. The professionals can’t be expected to get it right, but they expect the rest of us to do so.
“More than once in my career I or my colleagues grabbed the wrong guy or thought we were witnessing a crime which turned out not to be the case. We promptly removed the cuffs, apologized and gave the individual a ride home.”
I agree with this 100%. Why is it that Japan has so few lawyers? Because they have a more civil society. And this works “both ways”.
Sadly, you are (probably older) and retired. It’s a different, and uglier, world now, isn’t it?
IMO they shouldn’t be sued. They should be fired and tossed in jail. Their bosses should also be fired and jailed for authorizing the action.
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