A San Diego Unified School District bus driver, whose vanity license plate on his car is causing outrage, has been suspended, and 10News learned the state Department of Motor Vehicles is asking that he surrender the plates.
The driver’s plate has two words, “not see” — a slight spelling variation for “Nazi,” a word that represents racism and persecution. Above the plate is a swastika.
On Wednesday, 10News learned the DMV canceled the license plates and asked the owner, identified as Kearny Mesa resident Shawn Calpito, to return them.
A viewer sent in a photo of the plate, and 10News ran it through the DMV to track down Calpito. 10News knocked on Calpito’s door on Tuesday, but he did not answer. The person who sent 10News the photo of the license plate confirmed Calpito is the man behind it.
Calpito may have found out 10News was on to him on Tuesday because when we found his car, the front and back plates had been taken down. 10News also found his Facebook page, apparently just a few minutes before he took it down. When we went back to it, it was gone.
“This is a guy who is promoting racial hatred,” said civil rights attorney Jim McElroy.
As a San Diego Unified bus driver, Calpito works with dozens of kids each day.
Ian Seruello, whose child rides a bus, said, “Hopefully my kids wouldn’t ride on his bus. I mean, I would prefer the bus driver who doesn’t espouse those ideas.”
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The variation on the spelling is not “slight”; However the swastika makes it unmistakably clear, what he wants his license plates to be saying and promoting.
He wants to promote his evil sickness, to show his fellow nutcases they have solidarity, but wants to hide when it becomes too public.