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Originally Posted by granca
I do not really follow the car speeding analogy. With many modern cars the windows are tinted therefore the police cannot see the colour of the driver. Were the windows clear and only persons of a particular colour were stopped then that too would be discrimination. Of the 50 or so houses between me and where the stream joins the river most have broken what I am told this law says yet I am the only blanco and I am the only one who has been picked on. To me that seems like discrimination and not pure chance which being picked up for speeding would be.
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Basically, it is:
If an officer sits and watches speeders go by, then decides to stop a particular car, perhaps because it is red, a convertible, a Corvette, etc, then that is "Selected Enforcement" and a judge in the U.S. would dismiss the case if the officer was challenged about it by the defendant.
The officer
can not choose which person he will prosecute and at the same time let others violate the law.
That is discrimination.
Of course, this being the DR, they do whatever the hell they want!