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When did buying Beer become a Felony that needed police stings to be set up?
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Spokeswoman Kathleen Shaw said in the agency statement released Friday afternoon that agents
were working the area that night, concentrating on underage possession
]enforcement. Shaw said a female agent saw "what appeared to be an underage
person in possession of what appeared to be a case of beer."
It was bottled water.
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The UVA student, jailed on felony charges, panicked when approached by 7 armed plainclothes officers.
The original story here, where it happened, was that the officers were in plain clothes, late at night, in a fairly dark parking lot and didn't identify themselves immediately while running at the car.
Underage alcohol surveillance is real common in this area, and likely any area with a large college age population. Stings are also run where an underage person tries to buy alcohol (or cigarettes in MD) and if they're allowed to buy the store owner and employee are cited.
If I'm walking out of the grocery store and get accosted by seven armed men (and women?) in civilian clothing, I would probably respond the way she did. Get the heck out of there and call the real cops. There are too many incidents of people flashing fake badges to stop young women especially and then assaulting them.
One must wonder why the police felt the SWAT-like tactics were necessary even if she had been carrying a 12-pack of beer instead of water. All they had to do was radio a marked car parked around the corner with a uniformed officer inside to have him pull the SUV over as soon as it left the parking lot. That officer could have verified that the girls did not have alcohol, and let them go on their way.
I'm glad they dropped the charges, but it was ***** poor police work.
I saw this story on Yahoo and thought it was whacked. Why would it take 12 cops to stake out a package store and to stop anyone who looked under age to check their ID's to make sure they didn't just buy booze? Was it a slow crime day in their town? Was she profiled"
I'd be pretty frightened too if a bunch of people in street clothes were yelling and waving guns came at me. I'd take off too in fear of my life.
She is lucky though she didn't get shot when she did take off.
The police department is very lucky that the young lady wasn't black or an illegal immigrant. They would have so many lawsuits to answer.
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