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Another “Whitey” conspiracy revealed: a technological device is “racist”

Oh. My. Stars.  From Connectikook:

A lawyer representing a man charged with drunken driving has claimed Connecticut’s breathalyzers discriminate against blacks.

Attorney James Ruane represents 40-year-old Tyrone Brown, of Norwalk, who was arrested April 9 by Connecticut State Police on Interstate 95 in Fairfield.

In a motion filed Tuesday in Bridgeport Superior Court, Ruane asked a judge to suppress his client’s breathalyzer test results.

He contends the device used by state police and most local police departments, the Intoxilyzer 5000, discriminates against blacks.

Ruane said research shows the lung capacity of a black man is 3 percent lower than a white man’s and, therefore, black men’s test results vary from the sobriety standard set by the device.

Assistant State’s Attorney Mark Durso declined comment. 

Lower lung capacity?  Has dude never seen a black man run with the football, flee from the po-po, or shatter Olympic sprint records?

Seriously, I may have officially just seen it all.  A machine that measures drunkenness is racist?  Not the engineers or the designers of the machine, but the machine itself is racist?

Exit question:  Can we infer that the ambulance chaser making this claim is racist by implying that blacks get drunk (then get behind the wheel) more often than non-blacks?

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November 21, 2008 - Posted by | ambulance chasers, bigotry, bizarre

3 Comments »

  1. I was going to post in this but you beat me to it. I make a lot of DUI arrests and am certified on our machine. The attorney is shotgunning….hoping if he makes a lot of claims one might stick. That’s a common practice for DUI scumb- I mean, lawyers.

    But, he’s forgotten that height, weight, body fat, and gender all have an effect on lung capacity. Plus, the small fact that the breath instrument measures percentage by volume of air. So, in the scheme of things, the sample size is irrelevant as long as it is enough for the instrument to work with…and it will reject the sample if it isn’t.

    Sounds to me like the rest of the case is rock solid and he’s trying anything.

    Comment by The Truth Hurts | November 21, 2008

  2. And, to add to TTH’s accurate observations, a person with reduced lung capacity will often blow a lower reading than a person with good lungs. That’s why Officer Friendly tells you to keep blowing into the machine, because he wants to get all the alcohol vapor he can for analysis.
    His lawyer might be better off attacking the department for not “upgrading” to the Intoxilyzer 8000.

    Comment by PabloD | November 24, 2008

  3. Has dude never seen a black man run with the football, flee from the po-po, or shatter Olympic sprint records?

    Is that “Sprint” as in cell phone? :)

    Comment by Kanaka Girl | November 24, 2008


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