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   From: no.more.immigration@hillaryclinton.com   
      
   Seemingly outlandish street races between two luxury sports cars   
   — a Ferrari LaFerrari and a Porsche 911 GT3 — on residential   
   roads in Beverly Hills, Calif., have prompted a State Department   
   investigation. Authorities want to know whether the owner of the   
   vehicles is a legal U.S. resident and whether the exotic sports   
   cars are street-legal in the state.   
      
   Why? Police say the owner claims he is protected by diplomatic   
   immunity.   
      
   The cars gained nationwide attention over the weekend, after   
   they were captured in viral videos speeding down narrow   
   neighborhood streets and running through a stop sign before the   
   LaFerrari started to smoke.   
      
   Residents stood on street corners and filmed the spectacle on   
   their phones.   
      
   “I heard a bunch of loud noises, looked outside,” witness Aaron   
   Esagoff told KABC. “I saw a Ferrari coming down the street   
   really fast. It kept on veering around, coming back and forth,   
   back and forth. It was pretty loud.”   
      
   Residents called police on Saturday to report reckless driving   
   along North Walden Drive in Beverly Hills. When officers   
   arrived, a person claiming to be the owner of the vehicles   
   denied the reports, police said.   
      
   “As officers were conducting their investigation, they were   
   approached by an individual who indicated that the vehicles   
   belonged to him and denied driving at a high rate of speed,   
   running stop signs or driving recklessly,” police said in a   
   statement. “That individual claimed to have diplomatic immunity.”   
      
   “We believe they are Qatari nationals,” Beverly Hills Police Lt.   
   Lincoln Hoshino told The Washington Post on Wednesday. “But we   
   don’t believe they had diplomatic immunity. That’s beside the   
   point.”   
      
   Neighbors told KABC that those who live in the $10 million home   
   where the cars are kept are from Qatar. And the LaFerrari’s   
   license plate is registered there, according to KNBC. Some on   
   social media have speculated that the owner is connected to the   
   Qatari royal family — but police have not confirmed that.   
      
   Outside the home, freelance video journalist Jacob Rogers said   
   one man confronted him on the street, saying he shouldn’t have   
   filmed the cars.   
      
   “He told me verbatim, ‘I could have you killed and get away with   
   it,'” Rogers told KNBC. “I told him, ‘The press is allowed to be   
   here on the sidewalk on a public street.’ He said, ‘[Expletive]   
   America’ and threw a cigarette at me.”   
      
   The Ferrari LaFerrari is an exclusive and rare hybrid with a   
   $1.5 million price tag.   
      
   “The Beverly Hills Police Department has been in contact with   
   the United States Department of State in regards to the   
   diplomatic status of the individuals involved and the legality   
   of those vehicles being operated on a roadway in the State of   
   California,” police said in a statement.   
      
   State Department spokeswoman Nicole Thompson confirmed it,   
   telling ABC News that the agency is “working closely with the   
   local authorities concerning this disturbing report.”   
      
   “The case is currently under investigation,” Thompson said, “and   
   we are in the process of reviewing the validity of the alleged   
   assertion of diplomatic immunity with respect to this case.”   
      
      
   http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/09/16/you-   
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