'Desperate Housewives' Star Accused Of Unruly Shout Out With 'Mexican Cop'...

Police: Tony Parker and Eva Longoria were unruly
LAST UPDATE: 12/26/2005 9:02:29 AM
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A police officer accuses "Desperate Housewives"
actress Eva Longoria and her boyfriend, San Antonio Spurs guard Tony
Parker, of yelling profanities and insulting him after he asked them to
move their car.

The couple deny the allegations and Longoria called the police report
"highly inaccurate."

"I believe the couple will be pressing charges in conjunction with this
incident. They are intent on setting the record straight. Both Tony and

BTR1701...

Pressing charges for what? Even if the cop is lying about them, that's
not a crime. There's nothing to press charges about.

rgorman...

It is, however a tort.

Ubiquitous...

Mmmm, pie!

jayjayjpg...

Mmmmm...cake...can we eat it too?

Jay

ps yeah yeah torte

BTR1701...

Yes, but one doesn't press charges for a tort. That particular legal
process is solely the province of the criminal law.

Eva are law-abiding and respectful citizens of the community," said
Longoria's publicist, Liza Anderson.

The incident happened about 12:45 a.m. Saturday. After seeing a car
stopped, a bicycle officer indicated that it was impeding traffic. When
the car didn't move, the officer rapped the hood with the palm of his
hand, according to a police report.

Parker, who was behind the wheel, questioned why the officer touched the
car, and the couple "began screaming in a verbally abusive and demeaning
manner," police said.

Police say Parker began to drive away, almost hitting a man standing
nearby. After being told to stop and get out of the car, Parker showed
police a French driver's license, although records showed he has a Texas
driver's license, police said.

Parker was cited for impeding traffic and failing to produce a valid
Texas driver's license.

The officer who wrote the citations said Parker complained: "This is all
the cops do, just mess with people," and that Longoria shouted from the
car: "He's just a Mexican bike cop. He only wants your autograph."

Longoria, a native of Corpus Christi, denied making the comment.

"It's a shame that one officer conducted himself in such an inappropriate
and disorderly manner. I never made any sort of racial slurs, let alone
made any comments about the officer being Mexican, as a Mexican myself,"
Longoria said through her publicist.

Erin Woodbridge's Bestest Friend, Ian J. Ball...

Considering Longoria is a card-carrying member of MALDEF, I have a hard
time believing this claim against her.

(But, if it is true, it would be proof of gigantic, galactic-sized
hypocrisy...)

BTR1701...

I thought Longoria was born in Texas? Apparently the woman is confused
as to her own nationality.

arnold kim...

Who says you can identify yourself with only one nationality? And I'm not

BTR1701...

Common sense says it. Issues of nationality aren't matters of personal
preference or identity. They are based on the hard fact of citizenship.
Either you're a Mexican citizen or you aren't. Either you're an American
citizen or you aren't. I can call myself Russian but that doesn't make
me Russian.

arnold kim...

In a legal sense, yes, but she never claimed she was or wanted to be a
Mexican citizen- she never even used the word "nationality," you did. She's
talking about her Mexican identity and background.

The fact is that Longoria was born in Texas and that makes her American,
not Mexican. She may *want* to be Mexican and if so, she can renounce
her US citizenship and become Mexican but until that happens, she's not
Mexican, no matter what she "identifies" with.

arnold kim...

If she is of Mexican descent, that does make her Mexican in terms of ethnic
background and self identification, which is clearly what she meant. She

BTR1701...

Baloney. When a person says "I'm British" or "I'm Australian" they don't
mean their great-grandfather was from there, they mean that's who they
are.

arnold kim...

"Who they are" is not limited to the legal sense, IMO. Do they identify
with British or Australian culture in any way? Were they raised to consider
themselves British/Australian or celebrate their ethnic background?

And what about people who were born and raised in one culture, but gained
citizenship in another later in life? Would you really object if I referred
to my parents as being Korean, even though they've been granted US
citizenship as adults?

If you say "I'm a Mexican" it means you're from Mexico. A Mexican
citizen. Longoria doesn't fit the bill.

arnold kim...

So if a guy was born to Chinese parents in America, but the family moved
back to China when he were a few weeks old, and he proceeded to live his
entire life in China, would you object if he insisted that he's Chinese?

It's implicit that when she says "I'm a Mexican," she does not mean "I am a
Mexican citizen." You knew perfectly well what she meant.

Arnold Kim

doesn't have to renounce anything. And yes, I think you can self identify
with two different cultures, if you were brought up that way.

Arnold Kim

just talking about dual citizenship.

Arnold Kim