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Federal, city, and local NJ authorities are facing a big "d'oh!" on their faces after mistakenly putting a Chinese-American woman in Rikers for 8 days last year. Because now the woman, Hui Ping Wang, who was arrested at JFK Airport when she was returning from a trip to China, is suing many law enforcement agencies, incuding the Department of Immigration, the city's Department of Correction, and Bergen County NJ's sheriff's office. Why all the fuss? The Daily News explains:
Hui Ping Wang, 33, was locked up at Rikers Island on Aug. 10, 2005, after a computer check indicated a warrant had been issued for a woman named Hui Hua Wang in Bergen County, N.J.So, if your full name, social security number, address, and photographer don't match, you can still be arrested! This is probably how spies manage to impersonate people - if you're the same gender, you'll probably get a bye. Apparently Hui Hua Wang was on the hotlist for a larceny charge, and the Hui Hua Wang's complainant confirmed that Hui Ping Wang "was not the accused." Wang's lawyer charges that the authorities never bothered to follow up on the fact that they had the wrong person.Hui Ping Wang and her husband, Jiang Hong, pointed out that the fugitive had a different middle name, a different address, date of birth and Social Security number, according to a lawsuit filed in Brooklyn Federal Court.
Also, a photo attached to the warrant did not resemble Wang, the suit brought by Wang and Hong states.
But Wang was arrested anyway and held without bail at Rikers Island until she was extradited back to New Jersey eight days later and allowed to post bail.
And this is so out of All Look Same.
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Sounds like she has a case.
held for 8 DAYS!!!, whoa, sounds like at least an $8 million dollar suit she's looking at
This is just like the time Chow Fat Choi got confused with Chow Yun Wang who thought he was dating Choi Wang Chung and then it turns out Choi Wang Chung was actually another guy. Why can't asians get reasonable names like Harold or Percieval?
Doesn't it just give you incredible confidence in our law enforcement system? The acronym for Immigration and Customs Enforcement couldn't be more apt in this case: ICE. I can just imagine one of the officers saying behind her back, "Solly, evellyone rook rike." (Sure it's a mixture of mock Chinese and Japanese accents, but you can't expect these rocket scientists to know that.)
Movable Type strikes again! My first comment of the day and I get this error message:
"Your comment submission failed for the following reasons:
In an effort to curb malicious comment posting by abusive users, I've enabled a feature that requires a weblog commenter to wait a short amount of time before being able to post again. Please try to post your comment again in a short while. Thanks for your patience." So I guess 36 hours or so is a "short amount of time." The best thing about these wonderful "errors" is that it wipes out what you just wrote and it's unrecoverable. Thanks a lot, Jake!
I concur with Brightliner. The whole submission system here screws up a lot. When it wipes out a long comment, it sort of turns you off from commenting at all for a week.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! *ouch* That's gonna hurt in the wallet! Seriously, Welcome to the club Asian-Americans! African-Americans have been dealing with that for a long,long, time so get used to it ! As far as the person that was held for [8]days in jail. Sue the city and be done with it . I say this with a great deal of grief because that's taxpayer dough she's gonna get . It's sad and I wish there was another way to get justice for the expereience she had to go through in jail with the criminal element. That's some tuff shit to be exposed to !
Found an interesting site on alllooksame.
http://www.jref.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27828
Its point is generally "alllookdifferent". Has a nice academic reference to "Northern European" alllooksameness.