8-1-2014
http://news.yahoo.com/girl-ambushed-7-cops-carrying-water-wins-212k-133046581.html
Girl Ambushed By 7 Cops For Carrying Water Wins $212k From Va. Taxpayers
The state of Virginia will spend $212,500 in taxpayer funds to settle a $40 million lawsuit filed by Elizabeth Daly, the University of Virginia student who spent a night and much of the next day in jail after seven cunningly plain-clothed agents from the Alcoholic Beverage Control division ambushed her for the crime of purchasing bottled water.
The incident happened last June, after Daly (then 20, now 21) and two of her friends purchased a sky-blue carton of LaCroix sparkling water, cookie dough and ice cream at a local supermarket.
The seven agents sprung aggressively into action, suspecting that the student was carrying a 12-pack of beer. Police admitted that a high-strung agent vaulted onto the hood of Dalys Chevrolet TrailBlazer. She contends that one of them also drew a gun.
Daly, along with two roommates who were in the car, did what reasonable, unarmed people usually do when violently pounced upon by seven people.
They tried to get away.
They were showing unidentifiable badges after they approached us, but we became frightened, as they were not in anything close to a uniform, Daly wrote in an account of the incident.
Daly was charged Daly with three felonies. After a public outcry and embarrassing national ridicule, all charges were dropped and Dalys record was completely expunged.
The civil lawsuit against the state and its overzealous alcohol control agents followed.
In the 47-page civil suit, Dalys attorneys claimed that the alcohol control agents who have now cost taxpayers $212,500 mocked Daly at least a month after the incident and made her sound dumb and silly for being confused.
http://news.yahoo.com/girl-ambushed-7-cops-carrying-water-wins-212k-133046581.html
Girl Ambushed By 7 Cops For Carrying Water Wins $212k From Va. Taxpayers
The state of Virginia will spend $212,500 in taxpayer funds to settle a $40 million lawsuit filed by Elizabeth Daly, the University of Virginia student who spent a night and much of the next day in jail after seven cunningly plain-clothed agents from the Alcoholic Beverage Control division ambushed her for the crime of purchasing bottled water.
The incident happened last June, after Daly (then 20, now 21) and two of her friends purchased a sky-blue carton of LaCroix sparkling water, cookie dough and ice cream at a local supermarket.
The seven agents sprung aggressively into action, suspecting that the student was carrying a 12-pack of beer. Police admitted that a high-strung agent vaulted onto the hood of Dalys Chevrolet TrailBlazer. She contends that one of them also drew a gun.
Daly, along with two roommates who were in the car, did what reasonable, unarmed people usually do when violently pounced upon by seven people.
They tried to get away.
They were showing unidentifiable badges after they approached us, but we became frightened, as they were not in anything close to a uniform, Daly wrote in an account of the incident.
Daly was charged Daly with three felonies. After a public outcry and embarrassing national ridicule, all charges were dropped and Dalys record was completely expunged.
The civil lawsuit against the state and its overzealous alcohol control agents followed.
In the 47-page civil suit, Dalys attorneys claimed that the alcohol control agents who have now cost taxpayers $212,500 mocked Daly at least a month after the incident and made her sound dumb and silly for being confused.