Well Dire, I agree, but what bothers me most is it seems that every day we are seeing some out of control cops proving they think they are above the law and that they are somehow gods.
Here is one from a couple of days ago about some little Barney who arrested a girl for buying water at a convenience store. Apparently he approached her car without any identification and she thought she was being mugged.
http://www.theblaze.com/storie...uying-bottled-water/
Seeweed,
Not sure why this case in Virginia bothers me more than most of the others we hear of, but I have been following it since this post. Some new news has come out - the Special Agent in Charge of the 'raid' on these college girls, John Taylor, had been recently 'reassigned' because the Director believed he was 'no longer capable of leading the agents' at his previous post. So he was moved to a new post to lead the agents there 
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After the charges were finally dropped, the ABC board stated they would conduct a 'second' investigation after the 'first' internal investigation found no wrong doing by the officers - only to follow up and say there wasn't an initial 'first' investigation to begin with.
In addition, the local press has listed a LONG list of internal policies that were not followed by the agents on scene, here are a few -
(1) Policy states officers can only draw their weapon "when circumstances cause the agent to reasonably believe that it may be necessary to use the weapon." - see below for why the officer didn't ever have the justification to use the weapon.
(2) Updated in 2007, the agency’s use-of-force policy advises agents not to discharge weapons at a moving vehicle unless "a person in the vehicle poses an immediate threat to the agent or another person with the use of deadly force by means other than the vehicle." - threat with vehicle does not justify deadly force be used against the person in the vehicle
(3) The policy states "an agent threatened by an oncoming vehicle should move out of its path instead of discharging a firearm at it or any of its occupants." - why the officer never had the justification to draw his weapon in the first place
http://www.timesdispatch.com/n...e0-001a4bcf6878.html
The women called 911 during the incident and were speaking with the dispatcher immediately after. The dispatcher instructed them to stop for the pursuing agents. The dispatcher then informed Special Agent Taylor (who was one of the seven agents involved) that they thought the women honestly didn't know they were police officers when the fled, but that did not deter Taylor, the Special Agent In Charge, from arresting the college student for fleeing and hitting two of his officers.
Even after the DA dropped the charges, Special Agent Taylor sent an email to the other six agents saying "“While we may disagree with his [the DA's] decision, we all know that it is his decision to make......Thanks for all of your efforts during the operation in Charlottesville.”
http://www.dailyprogress.com/n...f31a.html?mode=story