Lawyer: Alcohol testing device is racist

[Big Don]

Lawyer: Alcohol testing device is racist

By DANIEL TEPFER
Staff writer
Updated: 11/20/2008 12:17:25 AM EST
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A lawyer representing a man arrested in Fairfield for drunken driving says the state's breathalyzers discriminate against black people.
"They are KKK in a box," said lawyer James O. Ruane of Shelton. "We really have some racist machines here."
Ruane represents Tyrone Brown, 40, of Burritt Avenue, Norwalk, who was arrested April 9 by the state police on Interstate 95 in Fairfield and charged with drunken driving.
A breath analysis administered at state police Troop G in Bridgeport found Brown had a blood-alcohol content of 0.188. The legal limit is 0.08.
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Read the full article to see how this jackass attorney uses a racist argument to advance his idiotic idea that machines are racist.

 

[Tez3]

Rascist, I doubt it but unreliable and innaccurate yes.

http://archives.tcm.ie/westernpeople/2006/03/29/story30104.asp
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-21391436_ITM
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_/ai_n14543291

 

[Frostbite]

So...would it be safe to say that the breathalyzer also discriminates against people with asthma, emphysema, and cystic fibrosis?

 

[Carol]

So...would it be safe to say that the breathalyzer also discriminates against people with asthma, emphysema, and cystic fibrosis?

SHHH!! That doesn't have the same emotional impact as "KKK In A Box"

I'd be more sympathetic about the 3% difference if the dude didn't blow a BAC that was 235% of the legal limit.

 

[shesulsa]

Jeebus Cripes.

So ... if his lungs are 3% smaller than a white males, then would his breatholizer test result be reduced by 3%? If so, that's 0.18236 ... which is still drunk!

 

[CoryKS]

"KKK In A Box" sounds like the name of some awful toy that no child would want to find under the tree on Christmas morning.

 

[Marginal]

"KKK In A Box" sounds like the name of some awful toy that no child would want to find under the tree on Christmas morning.

Klondike Kickboxing Ken?

 

[punisher73]

They aren't based on "lung capacity" this is just a red herring. What if I'm a white male midget? The machine works well because I'm white? What a crock of crap!!!

Here's an even easier solution...don't drink and drive PERIOD! Than you won't have to worry about how they test your blood alcohol.

I know of several officers in our dept. that just get the search warrant for a blood draw no matter what because the reults are VERY hard to dispute.

 

[Big Don]

Klondike Kickboxing Ken?

Really slaps the hell out of Barbie, the meanie.