City Sued By Illegal Immigrant’s Lawyer Because Cop Didn’t Know Spanish
An attorney for a Hispanic man who was allegedly knocked to the ground and kicked by a police officer is seeking over $1 million dollars for his client, arguing that the city’s failure to teach law enforcement officers “fundamental Spanish” is the reason excessive force was used.
According to the suit filed in a Hunt County, Texas, district court on Wednesday, Jose Lopez was assaulted at a football game in 2004 by a Royse City police officer who allegedly knocked him to the ground and kicked him in the knee and face while wearing steel-toed boots. . . .
In that suit, Domingo charges that an Irving police officer, who was cleared of all charged associated with the pepper-spraying and baton beating of Jose Palomino, an illegal alien who refused his orders to lay on the ground, was forced to use such tactics because he could not communicate in Spanish.
The plaintiff in the suit said he had been coming to the U.S. to work for 23 years but did not understand what the officer meant when he repeatedly said, “Down! Down! Down!”
Three things:
- It isn’t the city or the police officer’s fault that Palomino decided to jump our border and live in our country without first having the courtesy to learn our language. I mean, I know he couldn’t be bothered to abide by our immigration laws, but at least learn enough of our language to communicate with the people living here.
- I don’t care if you don’t speak the language, “Get down” is not that hard of a concept to grasp.
- This is so why we need an official national language.
