{"id":3749,"date":"2017-09-13T07:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsincerity.us\/?p=3749"},"modified":"2023-05-22T05:10:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T05:10:54","slug":"cop-takes-money-street-vendor-everyone-internet-cries-foul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kilde.org\/new-sincerity\/cop-takes-money-street-vendor-everyone-internet-cries-foul\/","title":{"rendered":"Cop Takes Money from Street Vendor, Internet Cries Foul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past Saturday, a hot dog vendor was serving folks at a UC Berkeley game when things got strange.<\/p>\n<p>A UC police officer passing students and alumni drinking alcohol on campus (which is technically illegal) approached the vendor, Juan, and wrote him a ticket for selling food without a license. What happened next is what many people from both the left and the right see as crossing the line.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Flores \u2013 a Cal alumni who was buying hot dogs for his family \u2013 sensed that something wasn&#8217;t quite right when the officer asked for Juan&#8217;s wallet, so he started recording with his phone. Officer S. Aranas inspected Juan&#8217;s wallet before taking his cash, much to the surprise of the vendor. Flores, who speaks both English and Spanish, piped up:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s not right. People can drink on campus at football games and (get) no tickets, but a hard working man selling hot dogs earning a living gets his money taken away and a ticket? Law and order for the few, that ain&#8217;t right, man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/video\/c\/embed\/6378076e-9797-11e7-af6a-6555caaeb8dc\" width=\"480\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><center><\/center><center><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The confiscation of money is called &#8216;civil forfeiture&#8217; which the ACLU says has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/issues\/criminal-law-reform\/reforming-police-practices\/asset-forfeiture-abuse\">widely misused<\/a>. One recent <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/1745-9133.12269\/abstract;jsessionid=A2EAC538B5B177B866C75EDF0E77FBBC.f03t02\">study<\/a> shows that implicit bias is a big issue in law enforcement. (If you&#8217;re curious about implicit biases, a Harvard initiative called Project Implicit made this <a href=\"https:\/\/implicit.harvard.edu\/implicit\/takeatest.html\">test<\/a> to try to better illustrate the idea.)<\/p>\n<p>These are a couple of many reasons the video was upsetting to see.&nbsp;It wasn&#8217;t necessarily the citation Flores (and those who saw the video) took issue with, it was the targeting of a minority trying to earn a living while other illegal, more dangerous activities were occurring nearby.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s right \u2013 no matter one&#8217;s background or political views, they deserve equal opportunity and justice, and that&#8217;s not what happened that day.<\/p>\n<p>But, thanks to Flores&#8217; video, a cascade of support has been pouring in from all over the country.&nbsp;By Monday the video had more than 11 million views.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepetitionsite.com\/992\/821\/972\/remove-s.-aranas-76-from-university-of-california-police-department\/\">petition<\/a>&nbsp;calling for the officer (who has a history of abuse of power) to be removed from duty as well as a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/officialjustice4juanstreetvendors\">GoFundMe<\/a>&nbsp;with a goal of $10,000 to cover Juan&#8217;s legal expenses and personal losses. It&#8217;s already exceeded $56,000. Flores says this is enough to host an event to connect vendors with community resources and bring to fruition Juan&#8217;s life dream of owning his own food truck.<\/p>\n<p>If you see something, say something. Or at least hit record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Saturday, a hot dog vendor was serving folks at a UC Berkeley game when things got strange. A UC police officer passing students and alumni drinking alcohol on campus (which is technically illegal) approached the vendor, Juan, and wrote him a ticket for selling food without a license. 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