Racism At Heart Of New Canaan Parking Ticket, Woman Says: Report

NEW CANAAN, CT — A woman recently claimed that the $30 parking ticket she received in New Canaan was the result of racism, writes the Stamford Advocate.

Farva Jafri repeatedly called into question the lack of non-white people in the room in the New Canaan Parking Commission hearing in which she contested the ticket.

The ticket had been issued on Main Street near Morse Court, across from the Chase Bank. Jafri claimed that she was sitting in the driver's seat of a not-moving but running car at the time.

Parking Enforcement Officer Lisa Pia issued the ticket, and she said that the car was parked in a clearly marked no parking zone, and Jafri was in the passenger seat at the time.

The hearing reportedly devolved into a shouting match with Jafri stating that essentially she was being mistreated - and not believed - because she is not white.

And in the end, after she was thrown out of the hearing, her appeal of the parking ticket was denied.

Click here to read the full story on the Advocate website.