Traffic Ticket Cited for Not Speaking English!
As someone who learned English as his second language, I can understand the frustrations if someone who doesn’t speak English well gets cited for not speaking English.
These tickets were actually cited by rookie Officer and were dismissed.
Usually, you get no tickets if you didn’t do something highly wrong on the road and cops will let you go if you don’t speak their native language. (as that happened to me in Korea where I told the cop I am a foreigner and he let me go although I had no motorcycle license plate) In this case, something went obviously south for the Texan residents who couldn’t speak English.
Of course, learn English, so you don’t have to deal with accidents like this.
The Dallas Police Department said it was embarrassed by what it calls a mistake by rookie Officer Gary Bromley after he stopped Ernestina Mondragon for making an illegal U-turn.
In addition for being cited for the U-turn violation, Mondragon received another ticket for being a “non-English speaking driver.”
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