University of Virginia student arrested in near fatal mix-up with police—for buying bottled water

Posted by Zman

The actions of the police in this case are inexcusable.  First, even if they thought she was buying beer illegally the use of this kind of force was uncalled for.  Second.  Maybe they should have identified themselves as police officers.  She had no way of knowing these baffoons were cops.  All she knew was some crazed nuts with guns were tryig to break in to her car and probably kidnap and gang rape her and her room mate.  To top it off, she had bottled water not beer.  Now I don't know about you but I'm legally blind, have very little eyesight and can tell a case of bottled water from a case of beer.  If these ding dongs can't tell the difference maybe they should not be police officers.  And again, a little overkill for someone you think is buying beer under age.  Sense these officers are apparently too dumb to figure this out I'll help them do this a little better next time.  If you think someoen is buying alcohol illegally pull them over, identify yourself and ask to see their what they bought and tell them what they are suspected of doing.  See, very simple and you don't have to act like a bunch of crazed loons to do it.  There was no excuse for this action and the person who gave the green light for this and actually thought this was a good way to stop underage people from buying booze needs to be fired, tarred, feathered, and run out of town.  Oh, they actually charged her with a felony too for allegedly hitting one of the officers with her car even though she did not know he was an officer.  Thankfully they dropped that charge.  Thankfully the twenty year old woman and her room ate were not hurt of killed.  I might recommend the bunch of bozo's running this police department re think their policy on how to deal with under age drinking.  My dead grandmother (may she rest in peace) could have handled this better.  At least the police are keeping the  streets safe from those juvenile delinquents who are buying bottled water.  After all that might lead to other horrible crimes like buying fruits and vegetables maybe even candy bars and potato chips, and we can't have that now can we.

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