Most of us would enjoy having free tacos sent to our office, but Mayor Joseph Maturo in East Haven, Conn., got on the wrong side of the food chain. He was sent thousands of tacos by angry Latinos for his comments to reporters asking about abuse of the Latino community by the East Haven Police Department.
According to a CNN report, the FBI had arrested four of the town’s police officers for “their alleged roles in abusing Latino residents and business owners, performing illegal searches, making false arrests and harassing immigrant rights advocates.” Wow, not something a leader of a community with a sizeable Latino populace should take lightly. When asked by reporters what he was going to do to regain trust with the Latino community, his answer was a flippant, “I might have tacos when I go home. I’m not quite sure yet.” Well, you can imagine that a lot of Latinos choked on that one, and then the taco barrage began.