Racistas, ignorantes e burros : EUA Mexicano passa 4 dias detido porque polícia confundiu farinha com cocaína

São mesmo uns ridiculos !

Grupos hispânicos querem pedido de desculpas da polícia.
Antonio Carranza passava pela Carolina do Norte para visitar irmã.

Agencia EFE

Grupos hispânicos da Carolina do Norte (EUA) exigiram nesta quarta-feira (11) que um oficial de Justiça americano se desculpe com o mexicano Antonio Hernandez Carranza que passou quatro dias detido depois que agentes tinham confundido farinha com cocaína em seu carro.

Antonio Carranza foi preso por erro da polícia. (Foto: Divulgação/Buncombe Co. Sheriff's Office)

"O mínimo que deveriam fazer é pedir desculpas para ele. Uma pessoa passou por um pesadelo por levar em seu carro massa de comida", disse Gustavo Silva, voluntário da organização hispânica "Nosso Centro", à Agência Efe.

O pesadelo deste residente de Carson (Califórnia), que passava pela Carolina do Norte para visitar a sua irmã, começou no dia 1º de maio, quando vários oficiais de justiça o detiveram por suposta posse de drogas, por dirigir embriagado e por não obedecer às ordens dos agentes.

Um dos policiais explicou porque decidiram deter o homem.

"O seu comportamento estranho nos preocupou, porque não respondia às ordens e, por isso, tivemos que detê-lo. O cachorro ainda detectou a presença de uma substância estranha dentro do carro", disse Van Duncan.

Hernández também foi submetido a vários exames para detectar o nível de álcool no sangue, que deram negativos.

Antonio Hernandez Carranza, man arrested as tortilla powder mistaken for cocaine

Posted by deskofbrian on May 9, 2011

ASHEVILLE — Antonio Hernandez Carranza took a wrong turn, and it turned out to be one of the biggest mistakes he’s ever made.

The Carson, Calif., man had driven more than 2,000 miles — three days straight — to see his sister in Johnson City, Tenn.

But instead of reaching the home of his sister, whom he hadn’t seen in nearly a decade, the 45-year-old carpet cleaner found himself in the Buncombe County jail under a $300,000 bond on charges of driving while intoxicated, failing to heed police lights and sirens and possession of 91 pounds of cocaine.

He was released four days later after sheriff’s deputies realized Hernandez, who said he doesn’t drink at all, wasn’t intoxicated and that what was in the back of his truck was exactly what he had said — $400 worth of cheese, shrimp and tortilla and tamale dough meant as a gift to his sister.

Now struggling to reclaim his truck and dog that were taken away, Hernandez said he wants only to see his family and possibly get some compensation for his time and expenses.

While in jail, he called his wife, Bernice, to tell her that he could be facing 40 years in prison and may never see her or their two boys again.

“She and the kids were crying. She was inconsolable,” Hernandez said through an interpreter.

Local residents affiliated with Latino advocacy groups say Hernandez, a legal resident who understands a fair amount of English but doesn’t speak it well, was targeted because of his ethnicity.

Deputies said Hernandez appeared drunk and they acted quickly to get narcotics test results after he was jailed.

Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Randy Smart acknowledged that four days in jail under an extremely high bond seemed a stiff penalty for failing to heed police lights and sirens, of which Hernandez was found guilty.

“It’s one of those things when you go back and look at it, it does seem a little harsh,” the Sheriff’s Office spokesman said.

Read the rest of the article: http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20110507/NEWS/305070023/Man-jailed-tortilla-dough

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