New york taxi-drivers union head wants racial profiling

December 7, 2010 18:02


“I don’t care about racial profiling. You know, sometimes it is good we are racially profiled, because the God’s honest truth is that 99 percent of the people that are robbing, stealing, killing these drivers are blacks and Hispanics,” said Mateo, who is Hispanic and has a black father.

Maybe he should be head of Homeland Security.

By SERGEY KADINSKY, TOM NAMAKO and DAN MANGAN at NY Post
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The head of a city taxi-drivers union is urging hacks to use “racial profiling” when deciding whether to pick up passengers, after a Queens livery driver was shot by an apparently Hispanic gunman over the weekend.

“Profile your passengers; it’s very important,” said Fernando Mateo, president of the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers, after Saturday’s shooting of Trevor Bell, 53, in South Ozone Park.

But Mateo told The Post, “I’m asking black and Hispanic people to profile their own, so how the hell can this be racist?

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