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Hispanic mothers denounce discrimination after being expelled from a pool for "listening to Mexican music"

2021-07-19T05:15:31.269Z


"There was no reason for them to take us out with the police," said one of the eight mothers who were thrown out of a recreation center. The activists demand that the authorities use the mothers' children as interpreters "to translate a traumatic event against themselves ”.


A group of Latina mothers reported having suffered discrimination

when they were forced to leave

a recreational center

with police escort

for being "listening to Mexican music" when they were enjoying an afternoon with the family.

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Part of the incident, which occurred on Monday in the town of Hendersonville, west of Charlotte, North Carolina,

was recorded on video by the victims themselves and shared on social networks.

"For me, it was courage, impotence, because we did nothing, there was no reason for them to take us out with the police," said Mexican Verónica Ramírez, one of the eight affected, during a press conference called on Saturday at the state Capitol in Raleigh by a group of activists.

Verónica Ramírez (center), Mexican, during a press conference held on Saturday, July 17, 2021, near the Capitol in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Courtesy Power NC Action

"My life changed in everything, in everything,"

said Ramírez, who also claimed equality and classified the incident as an "outrage against Mexicans and our culture."

Bianca Figueroa, user of the social network Tik Tok and responsible for compiling scenes and testimonies of those affected, managed to have the video after the expulsion, where the mothers congregate to recriminate the police officer who escorted them, to

be reproduced millions of times.

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“When I saw the images of mothers and children putting on their clothes and being escorted by the police, that's

when I told myself that this couldn't continue,

” recalled Figueroa, who asked the authorities of the County Sheriff's Office Henderson to make public the police report with the complaint of the owner of the premises where they "discriminated" against mothers.

Figueroa also requested that the call to the 911 emergency number be delivered by the Flex Fitness recreational center.

Natalia Diez, communications director for Poder NC Action, a non-profit community organization, urged the political authorities to present the case of these Hispanic mothers.

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"And that they defend their civil rights"

, exhorted Diez.   

Another of the activists' calls was to condemn the action taken by the agents who participated in the expulsion of Hispanic families from the place

by using minors as interpreters

"to translate a traumatic event against themselves."

In other testimonies of the affected women disseminated on social networks, several of the mothers express their discomfort at the situation which they classified as

“very humiliating”

and having caused them a trauma.

"I never thought I would live something like this",

"I don't even want to go to the store

,

" they

assured.

With information from EFE

Source: telemundo

All news articles on 2021-07-19

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