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11/21/2008: "Lawyer: Alcohol testing device is racist"

"They are KKK in a box," said lawyer James O. Ruane of Shelton. "We really have some racist machines here."

Ruane represents Tyrone Brown, 40, of Burritt Avenue, Norwalk, who was arrested April 9 by the state police on Interstate 95 in Fairfield and charged with drunken driving.

A breath analysis administered at state police Troop G in Bridgeport found Brown had a blood-alcohol content of 0.188. The legal limit is 0.08.

Ruane claims the lung capacity of a black man is 3 percent smaller than a white man and, therefore, black men's test results vary from the sobriety standard set by the device.

[ Lung capacity varies a lot between individuals regardless of race. If this was an important consideration in these tests it would have been noticed years ago! And isn't it "racist", according to those who say race is only skin deep, to suggest blacks have such differences anyway?]

http://www.connpost.com/ci_11021578