Well boo-frickin’-hoo! Emphasis added:

Juan Reardon, standing on the corner of 23rd Street and Barrett Avenue in Richmond on a hot Monday afternoon, strongly suggests you turn right. Particularly if you speak Spanish. Particularly if you lack a driver’s license or drive an uninsured vehicle.

Just know that police wait ahead at a checkpoint to ask for that paperwork, and to tow cars.

“We have a law that mandates you to have a driver’s license, but at the same time prohibits you from getting one,” said Reardon, fronting a group of placard-waving locals. “And the Richmond police, by implementing these BS policies, are … directly targeting the Latino population.”

I can’t help but notice how he neglects to mention that it was law-breaking that got these people into this situation in the first place.

Political candidate Chris Tallerico can set him straight:

“Driving is not a right. It’s a privilege,” Tallerico said. “If this provides us with a safer city, more power to it.”

The Richmond Vice Mayor also has his head on straight:

[John] Marquez, one of the city’s first Latino politicians and the council member most closely identified with the Latino business community, also is chairman of the council’s public safety subcommittee. He joined in a unanimous vote in the winter to support checkpoints and also clamored for the California Highway Patrol to temporarily supplement the local police force.

It is not “helping” the Latino community to allow lawlessness to run rampant in their neighborhoods, or to pick and choose which laws to enforce. It is not the job of law enforcement, or indeed of local government, to pass judgment on the laws passed by the legislative branches of state or federal government - their job is only to enforce them. It is up to the legislature to pass or repeal those laws, and it is for the courts to determine if they are unconstitutional. The anarchy that these protesters are asking for is not part of the American legal system.