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Oakland PD cancels Cinco de Mayo DUI checkpoints to avoid offending anyone
Hot Air.com ^ | May 7, 2016 | JAZZ SHAW

Posted on 05/07/2016 8:35:21 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Spok
let the ethnic community have deaths then....their children for example, if that's what they want...

me?...I'd like my children protected from drunk drivers....

21 posted on 05/07/2016 8:50:07 AM PDT by cherry
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To: LydiaLong

....but that policy offends me, so now they have a conundrum. OTOH, I’m a white Christian heterosexual male, so my offense probably counts as a benefit.


22 posted on 05/07/2016 8:51:08 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Kaslin

Cops concerned about offending criminals.

It’s all over folks...

We’re at the bottom.


23 posted on 05/07/2016 8:52:36 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Islam is Islam. Democracy is the train we ride to our ultimate victory. (Recep Erdogan))
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To: Kaslin

This is too much. The left is just bowing down in submission to anyone who is not a normal American.


24 posted on 05/07/2016 8:54:31 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: SnuffaBolshevik

Your questions are microaggressions...


25 posted on 05/07/2016 8:54:35 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Kaslin

Where I live, drunk driving by Hispanic males seems to be a part of their culture. Huge percentage of drunk driving arrests and accidents come from Hispanic males.


26 posted on 05/07/2016 8:55:34 AM PDT by slumber1 (Islam delenda est)
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To: nascarnation

We live in California.....and don’t go anywhere near a restaurant of any kind on May 5th. It seems like every single restaurant here, regardless of type, has Cinco de Mayo celebrations.


27 posted on 05/07/2016 8:55:54 AM PDT by sheana
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To: Kaslin

Oakland Police Department purchased 2 extra cases of chalk to mark the positions of the Hit & Run victims


28 posted on 05/07/2016 8:58:42 AM PDT by TYVets
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Huge percentage of drunk driving arrests and accidents come from Hispanic males.

But don't you see.....

An enlightened, progessive policy like this would significantly reduce the number of drunk driving arrests?


29 posted on 05/07/2016 9:08:30 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Islam is Islam. Democracy is the train we ride to our ultimate victory. (Recep Erdogan))
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To: Kaslin

The vanquished certainly cannot arrest their conquerors.


30 posted on 05/07/2016 9:08:47 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: Kaslin

I have a couple of thoughts about this.

One: I wonder if they will cancel DUI checkpoints on
Juneteenth weekend. or St Patrick’s Day.

Two: I guess anyone killed by drunk driver this week is just more collateral damage in the PC wars.


31 posted on 05/07/2016 9:16:57 AM PDT by Tupelo (we vote - THEY decide.)
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To: Kaslin

To bad France didn’t win the war at least it would have been a civilized country.


32 posted on 05/07/2016 9:24:14 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: jneesy

I don’t support these what I deem to be illegal check points.

We have now checkpoints for dui, drugs, aside from the constitutional ones near the border for immigration purposes (well we used to) and agricultural ones too. Why not also put up some felon, tax avoidance, insurance coverage, inland immigration status, kidnapping, stolen car, etc ones too? It is getting to that IMO because we have become so unhinged from the bill of rights to be laughable. We have seizures of property without court actions now, condemnations, 2A removals etc. I guess next we will have gestapo block watchers too.


33 posted on 05/07/2016 9:25:04 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: Kaslin

Are they going to do that in Boston for St. Patrick’s Day?


34 posted on 05/07/2016 9:25:14 AM PDT by EDINVA
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DUI checkpoints happen on NYE, St. Patty's Day, Memorial Day weekends, Labor Day weekends and other "holidays" when drinking and driving coincide.

OPD screwed the pooch on this one. The perpetually aggrieved just whine more and more, since they refuse to be responsible for their own poor decisions.

35 posted on 05/07/2016 9:29:08 AM PDT by Thumper1960 (Trump-2016)
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BS, they didn’t want the headache of making tons of drunk driving arrests of probably mostly residents or illegals causing a criminal statistic in that community to be held noticeable and maybe somewhat accountable.


36 posted on 05/07/2016 9:31:41 AM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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I'll tell this story again:

I know a number of Mexican-Americans and these guys are, of course, quite immersed in the illegal alien community as well. Therefore, I know a few illegals. One of the illegals was stopped by a cop for drunk driving (and he WAS drunk). When the cop realized he was illegal, he sighed and asked one of the passengers (who spoke English) if he could drive. The passenger said "yes" despite being 15 years old at the time (I'm not sure if the cop bothered to check for a driver's license). The cop said OK, and away they went. No charge, no ticket, no nothing.

Illegals have more rights than citizens.
37 posted on 05/07/2016 9:32:53 AM PDT by fr_freak
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To: Thumper1960

our city got to a point where they had roadblocks 7 days a week they would even have them in the afternoon,morning etc they didnt call them dui checkpoints they called them safety checks or some other nonsense we threw all the elected officials in town out on their ear and it stopped


38 posted on 05/07/2016 9:33:55 AM PDT by jneesy (I want my country back and Trump is gonna give it to me)
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To: Kaslin

Yup check the DUI police log and a great number of the DUI’s will be Mexican names.


39 posted on 05/07/2016 9:57:02 AM PDT by fkabuckeyesrule (To review, terrorism abroad is caused by climate chg while is US its guns)
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To: Still Thinking

Get with the program. Only leftist items that give offence matter.


40 posted on 05/07/2016 10:01:15 AM PDT by LydiaLong
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