ACLU accuse federal prosecutors of ethnic bias in meth sting

[dogday]

The American Civil Liberties Union is accusing federal prosecutors of ethnic bias in a sting last summer in which South Asian owners of convenience stores in Georgia were charged with selling household ingredients that could be used to make methamphetamine, a highly addictive drug," Kate Zernike writes in the Thursday edition of The New York Times.

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In a legal filing, the A.C.L.U. said yesterday that prosecutors ignored extensive evidence that white-owned stores were selling the same items to methamphetamine makers and focused instead on South Asians to take advantage of language barriers.

Prosecutors said the clerks should have known that the ingredients would be used to make methamphetamine because the informants who bought them said they needed the items to "finish up a cook," slang for making the drug.

But several South Asians said they believed that the informants were talking about barbecue.

Forty-four of the 49 people charged were Indian, and 23 out of 24 stores in the sting were owned or operated by Indians.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/ACLU_accuse_federal_prosecutors_of_ethnic_0405.html


Bias in the Federal Prosecutors Office--I don't believe it :sarcasm:

[Ian David]

1. Be a funny joke to play on a Republican friend...

send him to the store with a shopping list... "Lithium batteries... sudafed... iodine..."

Sorry, that's a satirical riff.