It’s a little difficult to swallow someone’s complaint that their side of the story hasn’t come out in the press when they’ve been studiously avoiding those trying to report the story.
We do not know how or if the very disturbing events of late at Abbey Court will be resolved and we haven’t heard much of the case for towing vehicles en masse. But on the surface and, we suspect, at core, the actions are intended to make life very difficult for a group of residents, a group that almost entirely is of a particular ethnicity.
Some would say that this is a private business matter and, distasteful and unfair as many of us find it, not prohibited. But the towing and enforcement of new rules on vehicles has led to public disturbances and required intervention by police. And the actions have certainly riled a good many citizens.
This clearly is no longer a private matter. It affects a large number of families and it does not appear to be merely a coincidence that they are nearly all Latino. The comments we’ve heard that those who protested were threatened with being reported to immigration does not bolster the management’s case — whatever that may be.
We won’t know until we hear an explanation. We encourage both the town and the county to investigate these actions.