Perhaps statistically Hispanics were not being targetted, but giving anyone a ticket for a rosary or an air freshener hanging from their rearview mirror seems a little over the top.
Puhleeze! I’m sure the ticket reads, “even though Mr. —————ez was speeding, the Rosary beads found on his mirror made him in violation of my personal prejudices” LOL
Really?
This has been going on since the sixties, maybe even the fifties. You used to get a ticket for fuzzy dice on the rear view mirror. This is where the law came from. It was originally targeted at the fuzzy dice. It goes back to the days when cops started ticketing for loud mufflers, lack of fenders, and front bumpers too low to the ground. It was a response to the greasers and the hotrodders and the drag racers.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
People wtih the handicapped ‘hanger’ are not allowed to leave them hanging - says so on it - can obscure view.