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Cocaine or Tortilla Dough? Tests Were Unclear
Hispanic groups are demanding an apology from a North Carolina sheriff's department that held a Mexican immigrant for four days after deputies mistook tortilla dough for cocaine.
Though Antonio Hernández Carranza was released last week from Buncombe County jail, the area's Latino community remains angry.
"The least they should do is apologize. This would not have happened to a white person. A person suffers a nightmare for carrying dough in his car," Gustavo Silva, a volunteer with the Asheville organization Nuestro Center, told Efe.
Hernández, a legal immigrant who lives in Carson, California, got into trouble while driving to his sister's home in Johnson City, Tennessee. The siblings had not seen each other for 10 years.
Read more:
Cocaine or Tortilla Dough? Tests Were Unclear - Fox News Latino
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Why would a white person be an immigrant carrying tortilla dough? The typical beaner excuse.
"You pick on us because we come in colors!"
Why would a black American be carrying tortilla dough?
Hispanic groups are demanding an apology from a North Carolina sheriff's department that held a Mexican immigrant for four days after deputies mistook tortilla dough for cocaine.
Though Antonio Hernández Carranza was released last week from Buncombe County jail, the area's Latino community remains angry.
"The least they should do is apologize. This would not have happened to a white person. A person suffers a nightmare for carrying dough in his car," Gustavo Silva, a volunteer with the Asheville organization Nuestro Center, told Efe.
Hernández, a legal immigrant who lives in Carson, California, got into trouble while driving to his sister's home in Johnson City, Tennessee. The siblings had not seen each other for 10 years.
Read more:
Cocaine or Tortilla Dough? Tests Were Unclear - Fox News Latino
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.This would not have happened to a white person
Why would a white person be an immigrant carrying tortilla dough? The typical beaner excuse.
"You pick on us because we come in colors!"
Why would a black American be carrying tortilla dough?