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"Anti-immigrant sentiments have unleashed a wave of hate on our communities, and Norristown is no exception," community organizer Carmen Guerrero told residents at a public meeting in the Montgomery County seat Wednesday, decrying what she said were worsening relations between the Latino population and local police.
The gathering of about 50 people at an East Main Street community center was attended by Councilwoman Linda Christian, town administrator David Forrest, and representatives of the U.S. Department of Justice, the NAACP, and the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania. Police Chief Russell Bono was invited, but it was agreed that Forrest would represent the municipality.
Organizers read an 11-page "white paper" consisting of eight "testimonies." The document was compiled by Juntos, a nonprofit, Latino human-rights group in Philadelphia that was contacted by Guerrero. It alleges instances of "racial profiling, harassment, [and] unjust detention" dating to 2010.
In his testimony, Gerardo Vega, owner of Taqueria Mexico Lindo, a West Main Street vacation rentals charleston sc restaurant, said that about 15 customers were present one winter day in 2011 when "police stormed in" without vacation rentals charleston sc a warrant. They demanded papers from the employees in the kitchen and the patrons in the dining room.
"Children began to cry and hug their parents - just terrified," said Vega, who was born in Mexico and is a legal permanent resident of the United States. "Police vacation rentals charleston sc shouted at them to be quiet or they would send them back to Mexico." One of the customers, a woman with diabetes, fainted and had to be taken to the hospital, he said.
Vega said police told him they had come to the restaurant looking for someone who had entered through its back door. Vega, who was working in the kitchen near the back door, insisted that no one had entered that way. The resulting negative vacation rentals charleston sc publicity from the raid, he said, has caused even regular customers to stay away.
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