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Thread #52007   Message #800516
Posted By: InOBU
10-Oct-02 - 02:46 PM
Thread Name: BS: Traveller Discrimination in the US 3
Subject: RE: BS: Traveller Discrimination in the US 3
It has been aleged that Madalynne has and alias and four drivers licences, there has been no proof of that, nor likely will there be. That is one of the issues which will be contested, no doupt, at trial. As to your not supposed to do that stuff, for the few Roma and Travellers who do, Police officers are not supposed to pull folks over and photograph and finger print them for no other reason that ethnicity. In fact, they do this and have done this to nearly ever "Gypsy" I know. In the face of this, a small number of people racialised as "Gypsies" sometimes use false identities in order to achieve that right which you take so for granted. Apparently Madalynne does not do this.
Larry