Brockton State Rep. Screams Fake News Over Real News

BROCKTON, MA — Brockton's state representative with a knack for drawing up controversy accused local media of delivering "fake news" over the weekend.

Sunday's edition of the Enterprise featured a story about Jorge Delgado, a parking control officer who is accused of calling a disabled black man the “N-word."

In the story, Delgado, is referred to as a parking control officer, which is his official job tile and the name of the job for anyone in the city who has been hired to enforce the city's parking laws. Not accurate, according to Brockton state Rep. Michelle DuBois.

“The Enterprise is FAKE news. The parking attendants that issue parking tickets are NOT police. They don’t carry gun [sic], they work for the parking authority, this is not a police officer,” DuBois wrote in the comment section of an Enterprise Facebook post for the story.

She added that parking control officers are “not officers of anything.”

Again, the official job title of the main focus of the story is parking control officer. That is the title given by the city and is real, despite what DuBois may think.

The comments have since bene deleted and she has not responded to an Enterprise request for comment.

DuBois has drawn attention a couple times in the past. In March 2017, she posted a warning on social media that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was going conduct a raid in Brockton. Last March, she called on the "General Hooker Entrance” to the State House to be renamed because of the double entendre it presents.

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