Well she did get off for the u turn violation. I live in the DFW and have heard DPD speaking on it. And now she is asking for money from the police department. Her attorney, Domingo Garcia, former mayor pro tem of Dallas, has filed a complaint with the city and she's asking for $5,000. For what? What did she have to stay in the hospital for over THIS?! See it how you will. No on stepped on her civil rights. There IS such a law. He just misapplied it. Like I said, she has now gotten off scott-free and will now most likely get money out of the deal. Damn... who'da thunk it.
Why, thank you, Mitch. American tax payers includes many different races, though. Even hispanics! I just feel that so long as anyone is to live in any country, working there and working to become a citizen of that country, they should try to learn the language. That statement actually goes into a whole other realm of the lady not speaking English. More of the idea that I have paid thousands of dollars having my children and raising them and many illegal aliens are here having children for free and then either lying to the system so that we are paying for them and their children or completely ducking it. And yes, there are many Americans that will do the same thing. I have unfortunately seen it. It just sounds like this lady has come here, had some American children and she now gets by without having to learn English since she is given preferential treatment due to the fact that she hasn't bothered to learn English well enough to tell a cop that she was performing an illegal u-turn because she was late getting her daughter to school. She also could have requested a Spanish speaking officer. I'm sure she didn't want to do that, though. I wouldn't have wanted to sit and wait, either. So does that mean that we should all have to learn Spanish so that we can acomidate the Spanish speaking community? That just seems completely ridiculous. My main gripe about her case is the fact that they dropped all of the 3 tickets issued to her. Ok, drop the one that should have never been given to her, but make her pay the other ones! She broke the law and needs to be held accountable!
The thing is, this woman was not prosecuted. She isn't even being held accountable for what she DID do wrong. All because DPD is afraid to upset the hispanic community around here which is growing at an alarming rate & we American taxpayers are paying for them and their babies. I live here in the DFW & it is ridiculous what we have to put up with when it comes to these language barriers, so to speak. I personally have had a hispanic, non-English speaking man attempt to hit my car with my 3 yr old and 1 month old infant inside causing me to swerve to avoid him hitting me and causing another car to hit me. He continued to drive like nothing happened. The gentleman in the other car(an English speaking hispanic) was very angry & went to confront the man. He acted like he wasn't even driving!! How ridiculous is that?! It is pathetic that they don't even try. To live in a country & not learn the language is just sad. And since English is not the "official" language of America, maybe it should be and anyone who wants citizenship should be made to learn English before they can become a citizen. Deal with it on a daily basis and see how frustrating it can really be.
It is federal law for commercial drivers to speak English. They are conducting business, so I believe the law is in order.
As for the woman who received the ticket in this case, she has lived in America for ELEVEN YEARS!!!!! How does someone live in a country for that long and not speak the language fluently. How many of you would move to Japan and not learn Japanese?!? No, she should not have gotten the ticket, but she should learn English a little better. Police around here have to deal with these idiots all of the time and they shouldn't have to. And they DO think they should be accomidated to because they don't speak English. Many of them even pretend to not know any English so they can get away with being ignorant or at least pretend to be ignorant as well as suck as much as they can out of the pockets of American tax payers. This woman in question not only had the ticket for not speaking English dropped, they dropped the ticket for no u-turn which is clearly marked with a sign that had a PICTURE on it. No words. And she got away with that, too.
Once again, catering to the hispanic community in the DFW... sad.
As for the woman who received the ticket in this case, she has lived in America for ELEVEN YEARS!!!!! How does someone live in a country for that long and not speak the language fluently. How many of you would move to Japan and not learn Japanese?!? No, she should not have gotten the ticket, but she should learn English a little better. Police around here have to deal with these idiots all of the time and they shouldn't have to. And they DO think they should be accomidated to because they don't speak English. Many of them even pretend to not know any English so they can get away with being ignorant or at least pretend to be ignorant as well as suck as much as they can out of the pockets of American tax payers. This woman in question not only had the ticket for not speaking English dropped, they dropped the ticket for no u-turn which is clearly marked with a sign that had a PICTURE on it. No words. And she got away with that, too.
Once again, catering to the hispanic community in the DFW... sad.