How was his English?” an unseen man asks Greene County sheriff’s deputy Capt. Brian Shifflett, as he climbs back into his cruiser a little after 11am on June 23.
“Pretty good,” says Shifflett. He’s just pulled over a driver, supposedly for speeding in rainy conditions on a rural road near Stanardsville. But Shifflett and his waiting passenger never discuss traffic violations. The few words they exchange in the next minute or so involve only whether the stopped driver is a U.S. citizen.
There are two possibilities for what happened in Greene County that morning:…