The driver who was involved in a vehicle collision with a tree last week that left one woman dead and a child in the hospital with serious injuries has been charged with vehicular manslaughter while driving drunk.
Jose Lumbreras, 24, was driving a Cadillac in which Milanca Lopez, 22, and her six-year-old son, Xavier, were passengers when he struck a roundabout and then collided with a tree early Friday morning on California Street just north of Allston Way. Lopez, a 2012 UC Berkeley graduate, was pronounced dead at the scene while both Lumbreras and Xavier were taken to local hospital trauma units, according to a press release from Berkeley Police Department spokesperson Sgt. Mary Kusmiss.
Lumbreras, a resident of Berkeley and a UC Berkeley graduate student in ethnic studies, was arrested Tuesday at Highland Hospital in Oakland. The Alameda County District Attorney charged Lumbreras with gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, drunken driving causing injury and enhancements for allegedly causing Xavier “to become comatose due to brain injury and to suffer paralysis,” according to court documents obtained from Deputy District Attorney Teresa Drenick.
The documents state that Lumbreras’ preliminary blood alcohol content was .219 percent — the legal state limit is 0.08 percent — and police estimate his speed was at least 64 mph when he collided with the tree.
Xavier, who was riding in the back of the car, remains in critical condition at Children’s Hospital Oakland and is currently on life support with minor brain function present, according to the documents.
A vigil was held for Lopez, who lived in University Village in Albany with her son, at Presentation Park on Saturday, where friends and family gathered in front of the tree the car collided with.
Anjuli Sastry is an assistant news editor.
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Easy as this. Events happens. Can’t blame no one. We dont’ get no were by arguing, pointing the finger. Situations like this are happening all over the country.
Its sad and tragic, but we gotta look at the positive side, no matter how bad the situation is. I pray for both families, both are suffering. Its time we unite as one.
I am sorry to have caused such arguments and to have come off as disrespectful. I just want to comment again and say that I am very sorry for being ignorant because I do know there is a time and a place for such comments. I’m sorry for the loss of Lopez and the tragic incident. It is human nature to make such mistakes and we are all subject to them. Thank you Tatt2 for putting me in check as I clearly was not being sympathetic and respectful. Much respect.
Barney Frank wouldn’t argue with anyone because his hands are dirty in so many different issues, but that’s another issue. Once again, some of you are upset because not everyone wants to treat these two adults as vecitings
> This comment shows how ignorant you are.
> Hispanics are not the only one
to get in car accidents,
> this can happen to anyone regardless of race,
> religion, sexual orientation, etc.
Never said they were, but thanks for sharing your demonstrable lack of reading comprehension with us.
> Former gang member now studies gang culture
Imagine a career check list for rising young academics, and compare it to the c.v. of UCSB assistant professor of sociology Victor Rios.
His life has all the hallmarks of success: Ph.D. from UC Berkeley,
check; tenure-track position at a major research university, check;
research fellowship from the Ford Foundation, check; book contract from a
major university press, check; campus awards for mentoring students,
check. Missing from this list, however, is the life-changing experience
that sets Victor Rios apart from his academic peers, and continues to
drive him both personally and professionally. Rios, who grew up an
impoverished community in Oakland in a household led by a single mother
on welfare, joined a gang at age 13, eventually dropped out of high
school, and ended up in “juvey” for a short time. Witnessing the tragic
death of his best friend at age 15 motivated him to dedicate his life to
help find solutions to poverty and youth violence. Today, Victor Rios
studies young men who join gangs, and looks for solutions that can help
them avoid the life he so narrowly escaped.
http://www.college.ucsb.edu/about/features/276-former-gang-member-now-studies-gang-culture
Way to go, Jose. You killed a woman and her child.
So much for this nonsensical crap about how he turned his life around.
Although I wouldn’t be surprised if Jose was a gang member, that just says that his college professor was a gang member high high school. Nothing about Jose’s gang membership, or lack thereof.
It’s natural to grieve for a deceased fellow Cal student no matter how he or she died. Milanca was an inspiration to many and the entire Cal community is saddened that she is no longer with us. Respect for her family’s grief must eventually give way to an inconvenient truth though: Milanca was a negligent mother who caused her son great bodily harm. It doesn’t matter if he was strapped into a child booster seat (probably not, since the Cadillac belonged to Jose). It doesn’t matter if she had no one else to drive her home. She never should have allowed her son to get into a car with a drunk driver. Was she always in the habit of bringing her six-year old son to late night parties? I guess that’s how she managed to raise a child while still having a social life. We do feel sad for the loss of her family, but it’s a double loss. Let this be a lesson to all parents and future parents.
How embarrassing that the university newspaper would include such disgusting comments as this thread does. This was a student, a daughter, a sister, a niece and a friend. This jackass, Stan, has the nerve to generalize Mexicans as if they were mass-produced like shoes to all be a certain way. You are talking about a young woman who made a difference in her community and was engaged and active and gave something back. Alive or dead, you don’t get to pigeon hole her to fit into your smug racist viewpoint you sick bastard.
And committed felony child endangerment that resulted in her poor child to lose most brain function and be on life support. But I guess she’s a minority, and a dead one, so I guess she’s excused from basic responsibility.
Pathetic.
What’s funny is how certain racial and ethnic groups have no problems building entire academic programs around blaming other racial/ethnic groups for their problems, but have this idea that they should be immune from any criticism themselves. If you can’t take the heat…
One writer has made the following observation: The worse minority ethnic group members behave, the more it is the fault of white people for noticing.
Minority member behaves poorly, white people notice (sorry for making an assumption about you) (notice, but without drawing any conclusions about the ethnic group, by the way). White people are evil for noticing.
”The worse minority ethnic group members behave, the more it is the fault of white people for noticing.”
Sort of like La Raza protesting DUI checkpoints because too many Latinos get arrested – somehow it’s “profiling” and “discriminatory” because more of them get caught. Just as I would cringe if some group of trailer-trash KKK types claim to represent MY people, I can’t imagine why most Mexican-Americans would be anything but embarrassed to have any of these La Raza types speaking for them.
> How embarrassing that the university newspaper
> would include such disgusting comments as this thread does.
Yeah, right. How embarrassing that people who disagree with you, and have enough sense to tell right from wrong, be allowed to post here. That’s what you’re really telling us, right?
> This jackass, Stan, has the nerve to generalize Mexicans
> as if they were mass-produced like shoes to all be a certain way
I didn’t “generalize Mexicans”. I have no problem with Mexican people in general, have spent time in Mexico, and in fact am of partial hispanic descent as well. However, I did bring up one particular self-destructive trait about the machismo aspect of Mexican culture, which is the recklessness and fatalistic attitudes towards life in general. I lived in the barrio in So Cal when I was a child, and have seen the results of alcoholism, drug abuse, gangs, and some of the plain stupid and reckless behavior exhibited in that community. My best friend as a kid spent years overcoming heroin addiction. He wound up letting his own child drown because of his alcoholism and drug dependency. Instead of accepting responsibility for his action, he and his family hired a lawyer and bankrupted some small business in the Sacramento Delta for essentially letting him “boat while drunk”. The whole family whines and wails over the death of the baby, without even a word of criticism for the one who KILLED the baby. Call me a jackass all you want, I don’t care. I have never killed anyone, much less my own child, and I’m f-cking sick and tired of people who want to blame everyone else for the reason that their own culture and family are f-cked up. Do I make myself clear?
No Stan, I am not saying that you can’t disagree. I am saying that this tragedy has nothing to do with race. I am saying that you are disrespectful for implying that being Hispanic has anything to do with the choices these people made on this tragic night. I am saying that rather than demonstrating compassion for an individual and many grieving families you are on a pedestal preaching as if you are somehow almighty and have the right to judge. I am also taking issue with the notion that all people of Hispanic descent are any certain way. Not all Hispanic people have “reckless and fatalistic” attitudes towards life Stan. I get that you want to fit this into your frame based on your own life experience but you don’t know these people and anything about what motivated them, nor do you have any idea why this tragedy happened and what extenuating circumstances may have brought them to this moment. I pray for you Stan and can assure you that when the time comes that you face a terrible tragedy in your life, as we all inevitably do, I will still be praying for you despite your smug racist righteousness. That is compassion and humanity Stan. I’m clear Stan. Clear of conscience and pure of heart in my prayer for you.
> No Stan, I am not saying that you can’t disagree.
> I am saying that this tragedy has nothing to do
> with race.
Neither did I. Do you have some type of serious reading comprehension problem or what?
> I am also taking issue with the notion that all people
> of Hispanic
descent are any certain way. Not all
> Hispanic people have “reckless and
fatalistic” attitudes
> towards life Stan.
I never said “all Hispanic people” either. You need to stop the strawman arguments, as they only make you look silly.
> I pray for you Stan and can assure you that when the
> time comes that you face a terrible tragedy in your life
This wasn’t a “tragedy”. A tragedy is the result of an accident – something that can not be predicted or avoided . The death of Xavier is an outrage. Learn to tell the difference.
California Street near Allston Way is a residential area! This idiot was going 64 mph down a residential area at 1 AM while drunk? With a child aboard? U.C. should expel him immediately from the PhD program. Maybe one of us will end up being hit by this drunken SOB if he stays at Cal.
> Oh this is so cute. Stan and I-H8 trying to say
> they are anything but ugly trolls stirring hate up.
Oh, look. Poor little picked-on Carlos with his hypersensitivity towards criticism wants to play the victim, because he can’t accept the reality that bad choices often have bad consequences. But thanks for bringing up the hate issue, as it’s clear that you are getting defensive over this issue because it was a bunch of hispanics who got killed and maimed. See, Carlos, the difference between you and I is that if these were a bunch of idiot white trash rednecks that got shit-drunk and drove their car into a tree, I wouldn’t be making excuses for the losers merely because they are white. OTOH, you have this silly PC attitude that you have to defend people who do dumb things merely because they share your race and/or ethnicity. You’re in essence acting like this behavior is predetermined by those factors, instead of accepting that they might have some free will involved in their decisions. But then again, here we have a fine example of the type of cultural chasm that exists in our society between those people who act responsibly and expect to be held accountable for their actions, and those who act as if there’s some type of cultural disposition to doing stupid and reckless things.
Your turn.
Like I said, it’s so cute!
In other words, you can’t respond with anything of substance.
Remember when Barney Frank told the idiot tea party person he wouldn’t argue with her cuz that would be like arguing with a dining room table? Ditto. But it’s still cute that you think you deserve a valid response.
Yawn.
Barney Frank is a criminal pedo who was probably scared to death that someone would mention his past transgressions. Pick another example next time, please.
This was completely preventative. Who in their right mind would drive that drunk? Why would she let him drive drunk with her precious baby in the car? Let alone the fact that they were both Berkeley grads, they were obviously both still very naive and irresponsible. My deepest condolences to the tragedy and the baby boy, but this could have been avoided completely.
Condolences and blame — how sweet of you to comment.
The part you missed in your teary-eyed indignation, Carlos:
“This was completely preventative. Who in their right mind would drive
that drunk? Why would she let him drive drunk with her precious baby in
the car?”
Thinking people ask what possesses people to do such self-destructive things.
Feeling people get indignant that someone dared ask those questions.
It’s quite clear that you aren’t a thinker, Carlos.
OH my. Stan doesn’t approve of me. Wow. I’m so hurt.
Maybe it’s the fact that during a tragic time like this Questions can be held till later..It’s respect for the family in which I am.. please keep all negative statements to yourself and treat this accident as if it could be someone you love.. R.I.P Little Cousin We Love You..
Go ahead, ignore the facts, then wonder why the hispanic community is killing itself.
Stan, I see your comments on multiple articles regarding this matter with your wanna-be display of intellectual wit. Please get a life. Regardless of what is factual, display an understanding of what respect is.
That’s a strong statement, I suggest you be careful how you phrase your words Stan de San Diego. I am Mexicano and I can tell you that drunk driving takes lives from all communities, not just the Latino population. So don’t make it seem that this is only a Hispanic problem because it is not.
your comment is completely uncalled for.
This comment shows how ignorant you are. Hispanics are not the only one to get in car accidents, this can happen to anyone regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, etc.
Very well said, Stan. I hope the guy prays to be forgiven by everyone, but more importantly, by God for his horrible mistake.
[Maybe it's the fact that during a tragic time like this Questions can be held till later.]
Actually, for most people, things like this need to be emphasized when the issue is still fresh in everyone’s minds. Not everyone has the intuitive ability or abstract reasoning capacity to put cause and effect together and recognize that some behavior can lead to rather undesirable consequences. Some people can only learn by example.
Thanks for stating the obvious and ignoring respect. Current student, obviously not of life.
Well, some times the obvious needs to be repeated when the intended audience is too thick-headed to get it the first time. The poor child is the only real victim here. The other parties were the ones responsible for the tragedy in the first place.
I agree with the statements, to a certain extent, but take your efforts/info out into the community and stop armchair-quarterbacking through your fingertips if you really want to make a difference. Have a little respect for the affected families and lives lost. There’s a time and place.
>I agree with the statements, to a certain extent,
> but take your efforts/info out into the
> community and stop armchair-quarterbacking
> through your fingertips if you really
> want to make a difference.
The term “armchair-quarterbacking” is used to suggest that the decision made was based on limited information or some form of urgency that does not make detailed analysis of the options a feasible alternative. A prime example of this would be your reaction if someone pulls out what appears to be a gun in a dark street or parking lot at 2 AM, when you need to reflexively act to perhaps save your own life. OTOH, this was NOTHING of the sort. Jose had to damn well know he was drunk, or he shouldn’t have possessed a DL and/or car in the first place. His GF had to know he was drunk and a danger to himself or others. If the information available to either of these parties wasn’t sufficient to indicate a potential problem, then these two were clearly not the sharpest tools in the shed, so apparently college was wasted on them.
Why won’t the Daily Cal report the fact that Lumbreras is a PhD student in ethnic studies, whose dissertation is a bunch of nonsensical leftist whining about “colonialism”?
why does it matter what he studied? the woman is dead and her son in on life support. Loser!
Because the story is about a tragedy, not another opportunity for you to mouth off your hatred of Ethnic Studies.
Maybe it’s more of disdain towards people who can’t figure out that actions have consequences. When you have lived a few decades and seen this behavior over and over, it’s easy to get burned out and numb to all the emotive outbursts of people who can’t accept that a lot of these types of tragedies are totally preventable.
If these two brain surgeons (the drunk pendejo and his loca) are representative of your typical Ethnic Studies graduates, it doesn’t speak highly of that program, does it?
not even close to producing a dissertation
Why don’t you post it for those of us who would like to know more about his character?
Tatt2, we already know about this lowlife’s character: he drove drunk killing his girlfriend and her baby.
We also know about Lopez, allowing herself to be driven along with her baby with her drunken moron of a boyfriend at the wheel. Had she lived, this pathetic excuse for a “responsible mother” should also have been prosecuted for manslaughter–the murder of her baby. It’s too bad there is no way to stop such irresponsible people from becoming parents…
I personally know Jose because he was one of my GSI’s for Chicano Studies. He overcame a lot to attend UC Berkeley. His dissertation had to do with the way Latinos are effected in the education system, inspired by the struggle he and many other Latinos must go through to receive a higher education. Many of the social problems that exist in Latino communities that prevent many Latino youth from attending college stem from colonialism. So don’t bullsh*t and make it say that Jose’s dissertation was a bunch of nonsense. Jose cared deeply for the Latino community just as Milanca did. It is a damn tragedy that this had to happen.
Obviously Jose never overcame alcoholism and addiction to speed. He is a reckless driver even with a child aboard and he doesn’t care at all about his community by speeding down a residential 2-lane street at highway speeds. What exactly did he learn from his struggle or his so-called higher education? Does Ethnic Studies teach its students that the white man’s laws can be ignored because 1) your family is already breaking immigration laws and 2) if you are upset by colonialism you can drive above the white man’s speed limit to express your grief? The only social problems that Jose exhibits are alcoholism, reckless driving, and vehicular manslaughter. The White Man blessed Jose with a chance to make a better life for himself in California’s finest university, and he throws it away. Don’t you dare blame his problems on colonialism!
Besides, what kind of dissertation talks about how difficult it is for the writer to get an education as he gets that education? It’s as if an English major wrote a dissertation on how difficult it was for him to buy a computer to write a dissertation, or as if a novelist wrote a novel on the problems of finding a room with a view to type up his first draft of that novel. Is this what passes for scholarship in the Ethnic Studies department?
I don’t think Jose really knows what struggle means, being a US citizen. Try some (most?) areas in South America where people literally struggle to survive physically every single day. How difficult is it to attend UC Berkeley when you are eligible for government grants/loans?
On the other hand there are people who have been to hell and back to be able to attend UC Berkeley, or even to be able to enter this country. But you don’t see them whining how disadvantaged they are.
Jose and the likes of him struggle with “the lack of afterschool activity” which “pushes them into idleness and gang membership” (his dissertation was something along these lines). Give me a break.
You are still trying to use colonialism as an excuse for the problems in the Latino community in the US? The Latino community will continue to fail until it starts to address its real problems.
> The Latino community will continue to fail until
> it starts to address its real problems.
Every community has its problems, but a community that externalizes its problems through blaming individuals of other racial/ethnic groups is never going to move forward. White folks have plenty of their own problems, but if anyone that I knew started blaming all their personal issues on blacks, hispanics or Asians, they would be ridiculed to no end. Maybe it’s time some of the people who claim to speak for the latino/hispanic community started acting like grown-ups instead of children.
> Many of the social problems that exist in Latino
> communities that
prevent many Latino youth
> from attending college stem from colonialism.
And “colonialism” explains drunk driving, reckless behavior, low grades, unwed teen mothers, and every other ill that befalls chicano/latino students? What a crock of bullshit and excuse making.
[His dissertation had to do with the way Latinos are effected in the
education system, inspired by the struggle he and many other Latinos
must go through to receive a higher education.
Sounds like his further educational pursuits are going to be more adversely affected by the adult criminal justice system than any “struggle” he had as a kid…
[Jose cared deeply for the Latino community just as Milanca did.]
He didn’t care deeply enough to avoid endangering (and killing) women and children in the Latino community. Seems sort of odd that the people most outraged by this mindless slaughter aren’t the people who should care the most…
” It is a damn tragedy that this had to happen. ”
It didn’t have to happen. It happened because of the astoundingly poor decisions that Jose made.
Colonialism made him drink just like Obama and his Chooming the weed.
And an astoundingly poor-make that criminal-decision by the late Ms. Lopez to not only ride without seatbelts but astoundingly, to get into the car along with her infant son with an idiot drunk at the wheel. Had Ms. Lopez lived, she might well have been charged as an accessory to manslaughter–in essence, the murder of her baby…
Perhaps if Jose had focused upon studies requiring analytical skills, he would have garnered the ability to know how wrong and downright dangerous it is to drive when drunk. Unfortunately, he wasted his time and our tax money in an Ethnic Studies program whose courses carry no correspondence with genuine history and reality.
As for the “Current Latino Student,” do pray tell tell us where “colonialism” exists in the US or Latin America. That you would even use that term tells us how ignorant you and your fellow Ethnic Studies department members are. And if the manifestations of “colonialism” exist in the USA, why are so many Latinos desperately entering this country illegally? Surely then, they must be masochists coming here to be exploited, no?
I’m willing to bet that Current Latino Student is another one of those “diversity” types majoring in Blame Whitey Studies. He probably has no clue what “colonialism” means other than some buzzword his La Raza teacher keeps repeating in class.
Sounds a lot more like that prison term for felony manslaughter that Jose is facing is going to be a far bigger hindrance to his PhD studies than any “colonialism”. So tell me, Current Latino Student, when are you people going to stop blaming Uncle Sam and the gringos for all your problems?
So what’s a college grad from Cal Berkeley doing even getting in a car with someone whose BAC is nearly triple the limit for DUI? Sorry to hear what happened to her, but it doesn’t sound like very good judgement on her part.
Cal has a lot of irresponsible students. The driver was a grad student in ethnic studies, and the dead woman was a new graduate in Chicano studies. They both endangered a six year old with their actions. I can understand people having sympathy for the student who committed suicide the other week, but I am not about to sit by and have people talk about what a great mother this woman was when her kid is in a car late at night with a drunken driver and now is paralyzed and near death.
seems like a good enough reason to abolish both the ethnic studies and chicano studies department.
Well, it certainly sounds like Common Sense 101 is NOT a prerequisite for those majors…
Gene pool improvement program is working.
Don’t worry I-h8 — no one was mistakenly thinking you were offering sympathy. Your reputation is still intact — you are still a man who kicks the dead.
The dead can take care of themselves. Hopefully, you learned something and you won’t do something stupid in the future so I have to use you as an example for the living.
The only stupid thing I do today is trying to reason with you. I tried, I failed. Enjoy your hate, troll.
Well, you certainly failed in the reason department.
You never tried to reason about anything. You seem to want to put your head in the sand instead of recognizing the something horrible happened, and we should do something now to prevent this from happening to any other students. As far as the internet is concerned, you are the troll, because you are not adding anything positive to the conversation. You just show up and make snarky comments. That is the true sign of a troll. If you disagree with my statements that this woman and her son should not have been riding with a hammered driver, then make y0ur point.
[I can understand people having sympathy for the student who committed
suicide the other week, but I am not about to sit by and have people
talk about what a great mother this woman was when her kid is in a car
late at night with a drunken driver and now is paralyzed and near death.]
Thank you.
Well Stan - she died. Does that satisfy you? Is that enough punishment for her actions?
It’s not an issue of “punishment” – it’s an issue of survival, the same reason that some of us abstain from risky activities such as recreational drug use or unprotected sex with strangers. It’s not because we fear legal action or moral censure, but because we recognize that some behavior has pretty severe consequences. I have seen the effects of drinking and driving up close to know that getting in a car with someone who is impaired is taking my life in my hands. Sorry you miss the point on this one.
We got the point Stan. It’s her own fault — she deserves to die. Just like all your posts, this one is filled with judgment and hate. Hating on Cal students is your obsession Stan — must be a nice life.
You just don’t get it. You are the only one implying the she deserved to die. The rest of us don’t think she deserved to die, but we are not going to candy coat things. We are going to tell other students not to follow her example..
Unfortunately, what you are seeing here is very common to Mexican culture, which is the resignation towards death and acceptance of self-destructive activity (drinking, gangs, machismo behavior) with the usual results. A culture that cannot accept causal relationships spends a lot of time bemoaning all the misfortunes suffered by its members, and seeks to externalize its problems by blaming a “racist” or “oppressive” society instead of accepting responsibility for its own plight.
Oh this is so cute. Stan and I-H8 trying to say they are anything but ugly trolls stirring hate up.
Thanks for the laughs, boys.
Once again, you’re reading stuff that isn’t there. It’s not a point of anyone saying anyone deserves to die. It’s a matter of pointing out causal relationships, i.e. that poor choices can result in bad consequences. Get rid of that chip on your shoulder, and think about it a bit before spewing more of your nonsense.
[ We got the point Stan. It's her own fault -- she deserves to die. ]
Short of murderers, terrorists, and child rapists, nobody DESERVES to die – but the fact of that matter is that people do die at an early age, and those who die in their 20′s typically succumb to the consequences of stupid and reckless behavior. It’s bad enough when your garden variety ignorant, uneducated types does him/herself in, but when you’re a college grad with (assumed) maturity and judgement, AND you subject a small child entrusted in your care to the same fate, what’s your excuse? Both of these adults engaged in grossly irresponsible and reckless behavior, and one person, possibly two, will be dead in consequence. Maybe she didn’t deserve to die, but her behavior didn’t suggest she had much interest in living a long life either…
Daily Cal,
Lumbreras, a resident of Berkeley, should read Lumbreras, a Grad student at UCB was arrested…..
http://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/graduate/profile.php?person=117
BPD should start doing something about drunk drivers, every night there are cars whizzing around the residential areas in high speeds, especially during weekends, where are the patrols to control this situation ? Berkeley being a college city seems to have instilled tolerance towards such behavior, why is that ? Laws are laws, esp. when it is about protecting lives.
If the liberals running Berkeley find out that more Latinos are stopped by police for suspected DUI than other ethnic groups, then the police will be accused of racism. According to Obama, Eric Holder, and John Perez, the police don’t have to be racists in order to allow institutional racism to occur unwittingly. Since drunk driving is an accepted norm in Mexico, it has become a new civil right for Latinos in California. Note that Mexican-Americans who grew up in America are not the problem. It’s the illegal aliens and Ethnic Studies students who don’t feel Gringo laws should apply to them.
Well, I’m going to assume that a) you are a resident of Arizona b) you watch Fox news all day or c) you are a plain old xenophobe. In any case, what kind of nonsense are you spewing? Re-read you post. And then re-read the article.
My post was in response to the previous post about drunk drivers in Berkeley, and not in response to the original article. I tried to explain that it would be difficult for Berkeley Police to crack down on drunk driver and reckless drivers because if a certain minority group becomes overrepresented in the arrest statistics, then Eric Holder will come down hard on the police even though the police had no intention to profile minority drivers. So please re-read my post and if you have something constructive to add please do so.