Eva 'no racist'
2005-12-27 14:11
San Antonio - Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria has denied making racial slurs after a car in which she was a passenger was stopped by police.
Longoria was in a car driven by San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker when the basketball player was cited for impeding traffic and failing to produce a valid Texas driver's licence during a traffic stop.
A bicycle police officer saw the car stopped about 00:45 Saturday and 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. Longoria called the police report "highly inaccurate".
Police say Parker then 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 licence, police said.
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 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.
- SAPA