Good for the gander, good for the goose, or something like that. In any case—yes, let them pay. Nothing hurts more than a punch to the wallet. Yeah, I know I got the adage wrong, so don’t correct me.
Bottled-water purchase leads to night in jail for UVa student
06/29/2013
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.
"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 stated.
“The agents acted with actual malice, out of embarrassment and disgrace for their own intentional and grossly negligent acts and charged [Daly] with three felonies and did so out of anger and personal spite,” alleges the suit filed by Richmond lawyers James Thorsen and John Honey.
Exactly spot on. All they had to do was apologize for frightening the girls, but they decided to double down on stupid and charge them.
Normally I give law enforcement the benefit of the doubt. I this case (after reading the details of the incident) I agree the "victim" has a case.
I did not see a narrative of the student's physical injuries, if any, but $40 million is a bit much.
Sounds like another case of attorney contingency welfare...
FYI
When I was a teenager occasionally a buddy would get busted for Minor in Posession but it didn’t take 7 Dept. of Alcohol agents to do it. It was always the local small town cop......
Bottled-water purchase leads to night in jail for UVa student
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.
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?
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!
The Democrats control most of the government in Va. This will disappear quickly.