I hope this is the way it went down, but on the other hand it is the US so you never be certain.

Imagining either situation made me laugh hard so I don't really care which is true

i fucking hate americans

TL DR cops doing their jobs

Good thing she wasn't a black male, he would have been a "Criminal trying to escape"and not "scared for his life" huh?

>pulls out guns

Jep, just your average police officers pulling out guns on a 20 year old, because the situation really called for it.

who the hell came up with 40 million dollars? wtf is that based on? it sounds like someone just pulled a random number out of their ass

1. The "privileged white girl" was picking up cases of water for a benefit event for Alzheimer's research.


2. The due process clause of the fifth amendment requires that an officer have probable cause that a crime has been committed before a detainment can be made. Officers are not allowed to stop you on a whim, just to investigate, or confirm suspicion without articulable evidence. For suspicion of an underage person, an officer needs 2 things for a detainment: 1) Evidence that the purchase was alcohol, 2) evidence that the person was under 21. Simply being underage and making a purchase at a place that sells alcohol is not enough. This makes the entire stop illegal.

3)Officers are required to clearly identify themselves as police officers when making a detention. The officer should not have waited until she got in the car to identify himself verbally, because it can be hard to hear depending on how thick a car is insulated. The article says the officer followed her out of the store. How hard would it have been for him to say while she was walking to the car "Ma'am, Im a Police Officer. I need to see if you purchased alcohol". A badge is not enough. Many people who are not law enforcement are issued badges. Health inspectors in my state have badges with the state seal on it.

4) It wasn't the police who dropped the charges. The police only file the charges. The prosecutor who got the case decided there wasn't enough evidence for it to go to trial, probably because he realized the entire detainment wasn't legal, and by the fruit of the poisoned tree legal doctrine, all subsequent crimes were nullified. The state wasn't being kind by dropping the charges, they were doing because they HAD to

5)how hard would it be to have these officers in an unmarked car like they do for stings in my city? It takes the element of uncertainty out of it. When you get to your car, they pull up and box you in, with lights flashing, so you KNOW its the police.

You fucking retard. I didnt say it wasnt impossible to confuse the two, but an officer needs EVIDENCE that something is alcoholic before he/she can stop you for it. They can stop you because your carrying a case of cans that MIGHT be beer. They have to have evidence it was beer. Being in cans is not evidence.

And a sting is however a department sets it up. Ive seen stings with cops on bikes, hotel stings etc. I know how a sting works, a lot more than you, because I work for a sheriff's office and graduated with my Bachelors in Criminal Justice Administration.

Take your ignorance elsewhere, fucktard.

They Cant** stop you for it being it cans.

1. Your comment deserves more thumbs


2. Have the webm version. It works outstandingly.

Your post was: 1. wrong 2. More wrong.

Oh and she didnt get the 40 Million (LOL wat figure anyway) but she did get $212,000 wtvr.com/2014/07/31/virginia-abc-settles-lawsuit-with-uva-student-arrested-while-buying-sparkling-water/

>"Firearms were drawn and hoods were jumped on" ...for some reason that just sounds absolutely hilarious. Thanks m8 i r8 8/8

ur right, its cause she white

Sir; She feels wronged by the police. She was scared, they acted. Turning of events being incorrect on both ends. (I mean this as their "sting" came up as nothing more than canned water and dough, and her being scared that everything went so wrong, so fast.).
She has every right to sue. She was a scared civilian, they were muscling their way in (in her eyes) to her privacy. They took a risk not being 100% sure of her belongings. I suppose, though it might be their job, they took a risk and it bit them.

carbonated water perhaps.

And none of the cops could just confront the girl as she walked out of the store about what it was and prevent this whole scenario in the first place?
Or have another cop in uniform on standby to deal with it, at least then she would probably be more likely to comply.
Or even if they don't believe that they're officers, get one or two of them in uniform to dispatch to that location.
Or have her call the station on her phone, and verify the badge numbers for herself somehow.
I mean, there's a lot of different ways this situation could have been handled better, even if they might have inconvenienced someone else to do it.

Don't think any of that justifies what happened here. if that happened in the UK there would be riots, and if it turned out it was because of fucking water, there would be anarchy

you think straight with a gun pointed at you. 40 million is a little insane but maybe if police acted a little more subtle the whole thing woudnt have happend

"potential criminal"

A young woman who MIGHT have bought beer while underage. Not exactly a criminal mastermind or violent thug. What exactly are the chances that she'd have a gun and would be willing to use it at point blank range against three men who are obviously bigger and stronger than her?

No, the cops were dumbasses who should have known better than to surround the woman and think that she'd believe they were undercover cops just because they had a badge. It could have easily been fake and how would she be able to tell the difference? What they should have done is have her call police dispatch, then have police dispatch either confirm the cops were undercover or call those cops specifically.

Actually it's not totally uncommon to hear about criminals shooting cops over trivial things like DUI or speeding. Especially if they happen to be hiding something a little more illegal than alcohol in their car. I agree that they overreacted but I can definitely see why they chose to play it safe.

Besides, this story isn't half as bad as the ones you see/read about cops detaining people just because they don't want to do what they unlawfully request.

same shit happened to me except I was the one who fell asleep.

I also dozed off boinking my ex one time, Fuck me Instead of blowing me for foreplay pump me full of 5 hour energy