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Pawpaw wrote:
Right there is the crux of the problem. What do you suppose put the girls into a panic?

As I hit on in my other post, we don't really know. Too many times to count I saw overblown reactions to the mere presence of anybody from a LE Agency and not just by intoxicated people.

Or the agents messed up, which seems to be the preferred narrative by the majority posting here.

I don't have an opinion on this because too many times I've seen the media get things completely wrong in reporting and both sides are going to tell their own story to paint themselves in the best possible light. The truth is somewhere between the two and probably doesn't read much like it does in the paper.

gigag04 wrote:
However, I think their actions have nothing to do with the "militarization" of law enforcement...whatever that term actually means...

I think it's an aversion to the police not looking and acting like they police in Mayberry. I could be wrong.

From my experience in working with college students in a quasi-LE fashion, younger people have a tendency to do weird and irrational things when confronted by law enforcement. It is entirely reasonable for me to believe the girl saw a badge, freaked out thinking she was in trouble for something and tried to get away from the situation. I don't know that's what happened here but I can definitely see it being possible.

Also it is not at all unusual for plainclothes (different from undercover BTW) ABC agents to make stops outside of establishments selling alcohol. My grandfather worked as a California ABC agent in the 70s and shared many different stories of him doing just that.