Recently we found a Hispanic-on-Hispanic hate crime and now here’s some Hispanic-on-Hispanic racism. The San Francisco public defenders office has accused a Hispanic police officer of racism because he arrested some Hispanic drug dealers.
The NY Post reports:
The San Francisco Public Defender’s office has accused a Latino police officer of racially discriminating against Latino drug dealers in the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood.
According to public defense attorneys for one of the neighborhood’s alleged drug dealers, Sgt. Daniel Solorzano arrested 53 people for drug sales over a roughly two-year period, all of whom were Latino. Meanwhile, they claim he declined to arrest 43 other people who the police had detained or surveilled, all but two of whom were non-Latino.
Solorzano has Mexican and Nicaraguan heritage and Spanish is his first language. He has been a SFPD officer for 14 years, with 12 working in the Tenderloin District.
The SF public defenders office filed a motion under the California Racial Justice Act that accuses Solorzano of “racial bias and animus toward Hispanic or Latinx persons.” Do drug dealing scumbags identify as Latinx?
That however is hardly the dumbest thing here. Solorzano has been reassigned while a judge weighs the merits of this meritless accusation. If Solorzano is found guilty of Hispanic-on-Hispanic racism, he would be fined and fired.
Tom Ostly, a former prosecutor in the San Francisco DA’s office, pointed out that the drug trade in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District is controlled by the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel, which may explain why all of the drug dealers arrested there are Hispanic.
Ostly also had the most hilarious statement regarding this ridiculous accusation of racism:
“Maybe it’s the cartel that’s racist for only hiring from one ethnic group and national origin. When the defense used to argue a particular race was being targeted I would suggest they contact the Sinaloa Cartel and tell their HR department they need to implement a more robust diversity plan that aligns with San Francisco values,” said Ostly.
No kidding. If Hollywood has to make every character black now, the Mexican drug cartels should also have to diversify.
Less funny but to the same point SFPD Lt. Tracy McCray said, “We don’t control who sells drugs in the Tenderloin. I was a teenager in the ’80s. We had dealers who were white and black selling in the Tenderloin. Now, today, it’s Latino drug dealers. What do you want us to do? We don’t pick and choose.”
But wait, there’s more idiocy to be had here. The SF public defenders office alleged that Solorzano was racist because he declined to arrest 43 non-Hispanic drug dealers but they can only identify 5 of those people as being non-Hispanic. In fact, they can’t identify the remaining 39 people at all. The thrust of their argument is that Solorzano is racist because he arrested Hispanic drug dealer but let non-Hispanic drug dealers go and they can’t even prove that.
Arresting someone for a crime they have committed is not racist, it’s called enforcing the law, something law enforcement officers are supposed to do. Nowhere in this complaint does the SF public defenders office allege that these Hispanic drug dealers are innocent of their crimes so this is pure bullshit.
