The major news this morning for many Latinos in East Haven, CT was to hear that the FBI arrested a sergeant, and several police officers on charges of conspiracy, false arrests, excessive force and obstruction of justice. Apparently this East Haven community has a growing number of Latinos that went from approximately 200 in 2000 to over 3000 in the last census of 2010.

This number, though small seems to be too much for many in this community that prides itself as being a small tight knit community. Therefore, this growing Latino population is not welcomed and many law enforcement officials perhaps with higher executive support have been making life for these hard working Latinos miserable.

When mayor, Joseph Maturo Jr. was interviewed by a local reporter and asked what his administration was doing about this problem and the lack of Latinos in any of the towns departments he said: Well on second thought you should hear this yourself because when I write it I can’t help but get angry and this year of the Dragon I am working on controlling my emotions.

When people question why are the Boricuas/Latinos For A Positive Image still protesting against ABC – TV every Thursday for the insulting joke: “I’m Puerto Rican, I would be great at selling drugs” they need to look at this video clip and see that many individuals in this country already have a negative image of us, thus insulting jokes aired to a national audience against our community only fosters more anger and stereotypes that are untrue and puts our community in a very vulnerable situation. That’s why it’s time to say: Basta Ya!