North Carolina Sheriffs Mistake Tortilla Dough (aka Masa) for Cocaine, Arrest Mexican by Accident

• THEY NEED TO GO BACK TO TRAINING BUT THIS NOTHING NEW SAME O SAME BUNCH OF BS!

• Oh my god your kidding, this reads cover my redneck ass all over

• You also left out the part where the police put their knee on his back, but why mess with your narrative? What you included changes nothing, so spare us your hard-on for me, por favor--it's rather embarrassing.

• "What's next for those Blue Ridge deputies--mistaking a bag of udon for lines of crack?" Probably not, because, as you know (but don't mention), the Buncombe County Sheriff's Department is working with manufacturers to correct faulty tests of suspected drugs. Gustavo, we're all aware of your need to impress people with a devotion to -- read: prejudice toward -- everything Mexican. So, as usual, I checked the original story to see if you had left out something important. My God, what didn't you leave out! I learned that the incident started when the driver took off after officers knocked on the window to see why he'd parked on an Interstate Highway. He led them on a slow-moving, O.J.-style chase for three miles and wouldn't get out of the car when they finally stopped him. He appeared intoxicated (apparently, because he had gone without sleep for several days), and <i>field tests showed (erroneously) that he was transporting drugs.</i> Do you agree that you should have mentioned these facts from the news story and let your readers draw their own conclusions? Look at the kind of response your bigotry in favor of Mexicans and against Southerners has encouraged from readers of similar mindset. Assuming that the information originally reported is correct (and you give no indication otherwise), your omissions are just as harmful as bigotry against Mexicans and in favor of Southerners or other whites. Incidentally, as I said, the faulty drug tests have led the Sheriff's Department to investigate the problem with the manufacturer and look for corrective measures. Isn't that what you'd expect from professionals? What corrective measures are <i>you</i> considering for your reaction to people who are different from you? One final point: I've lived all over the U.S. and have never met a bigot anywhere who <i>thought</i> he was a bigot. Like you, even in the face of strong evidence, they always have weak reasons and confused explanations for their peculiar behavior.

• That is sooooo embarrassing all North Carolina's are not that stupid.. I swear... Only a few of us....

• Whatever stupid white cops admit

• When the South ceases to be filled with Barney Fifes, then it'll cease to be the South.

• They're right to haul him away! The addiction for mexican food is rampant!

• Does that ball of masa look like an eight ball? No. In no way does it look like 3.5 grams of cocaine. It does, at first glance, look like a giant ball of coke, though. I'm most struck by how unbelievably dumb you have to be to be headed for Tennessee and end up in North Carolina. I mean, really. Look at a highway map. It aint rocket science.

• It's not for nothing that the word "bunkum" comes from a politician who was "talking to Buncombe."

• I can't believe it's 2011 and the South is still full of Barney Fifes. Did they think it would be "too Hollywood" to cut a bag of that flour open and taste it? Not that they'd know what the hell they were looking for in the first place. I hope they at least paid him for the shrimp that was ruined. What? They impounded the dude's DOG TOO? Someone needs to be fired.

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