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  • Highway safety director apologizes for chiding Hispanics

    12/15/2006 5:44:15 AM PST · by Liz · 11 replies · 574+ views
    Star-Ledger ^ | Friday, December 15, 2006 | RICK HEPP, Brian Donohue contributed to report.
    The head of the state Highway Traffic Safety Division apologized yesterday for telling a Spanish-language newspaper Hispanic immigrants need to remember they can't drive drunk and then bribe police to avoid arrest like they did in their old countries. "They ought to remember that now they are not in Latin America where if there is a problem due to driving drunk one pays the police so they 'will look the other way,'" Roberto Rodriguez is quoted as saying in the biweekly newspaper Reporte Hispano. "Hispanics should accustom themselves to the culture of the USA, its norms and its rules. Here,...