Hey Joe, here's your tacos...too bad the racist assclown of a mayor ran out the back door while his critics voiced their outrage..
New Haven's Latino advocates saved one taco for East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo, Jr. and sent 399 others to people who might appreciate them more-diners at a local soup kitchen.
The delivery came Thursday afternoon at East Haven Town Hall, as Maturo's now-infamous "taco" remark continued to reverberate across the nation.
Maturo's off-the-cuff remark came after four of his cops were arrested for allegedly targeting, brutalizing, and falsely arresting Latinos. When a reporter from New York's WPIX TV asked Maturo what he'd do for the Latino community, Maturo responded, "I might have tacos when I get home." (Watch it here.) Maturo has since apologized for the remark.
As outrage spread, a national coalition called Reform Immigration for America urged people to text TACO to 69866 to condemn mayor's remark. The group pledged to send Maturo one taco for each person who texted in support.
As of Thursday afternoon, 2,600 people had sent a taco text.
Around 1:20 p.m., activists showed up at Maturo's door with aluminum trays carrying the first delivery of 400 tacos.
"These tacos represent every person across America who was disgusted by and condemns your comments," announced Latrina Kelly, interim head of Junta for Progressive Action, a New Haven-based Latino advocacy group.
Maturo wasn't there to hear her remarks. He slipped out a back door and was spotted driving off in his city-issued car shortly after 1 p.m., the time of the scheduled delivery.
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In Maturo's absence, Junta's Kelly spoke to a throng of local and national reporters. The press group was so big that it couldn't fit into the mayor's office; Kelly had to relocate to the hallway to accommodate the crowd.
"Hopefully, you now know that comments like yours only heighten racial tension, and help explain how the kind of racial intolerance uncovered by the U.S. Justice Department was allowed to take hold in the East Haven police department," Kelly told Maturo via the cameras.
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