Hispanic area targeted for DWI - Albuquerque, New Mexico

Posted on: November 17th, 2006
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“Wagner said Thursday that if only one roadblock had been set up, he wouldn’t have seen a problem with it. But together the roadblocks - one on Bridge Boulevard Southwest just west of the Rio Grande, the other on Central Avenue at Sunset Road - effectively “cordoned off a predominantly ethnic part of town,” he said.

But leaders of some of those neighborhoods don’t see it that way.

“Sometimes a lot of us feel we are targeted because we are Hispanic or whatever, but not when it comes to DWI,” said George Montoya, who lives in the Vecinos del Bosque neighborhood between Central and Bridge adjacent to the river.”

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