Shocking: Arizona Sheriff Charged with Racial Discrimination

[hater]

how shocking. this coming from "America's toughest Sheriff" :downspin:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204026804577100312336790968.html


The Justice Department has found Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio—a contentious figure in the national debate over immigration—runs a department rife with discrimination against Latinos.

A three-year civil-rights investigation found Mr. Arpaio's Maricopa County office engaged in racial profiling in traffic stops, retaliation against the sheriff's critics, and poor treatment of Spanish-speaking inmates. Assistant U.S. Attorney General Tom Perez is in Phoenix Thursday announcing the initial findings in the probe.

Mr. Arpaio, who bills himself as "America's Toughest Sheriff,'' has long trumpeted his get-tough policies—including making jail inmates wear pink underwear.

[Winehole23]

accused of<>charged with

[Winehole23]

the civil rights investigation is ongoing

[CosmicCowboy]

Obama/Holder Justice Department.

Nuff said.

[Winehole23]

couldn't happen to a nicer

[boutons_deux]

also being investigated for corruption of $10Ms

also being investigated for not pursuing sex offenders

AZ and NV are such wonderful places

[hater]

Sheriff Arpaio's Office Commits Worst Racial Profiling in U.S. History, Expert Concludes in DOJ Investigation

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2011/12/sheriff_arpaio_oversaw_worst_r.php

A study commissioned by the Justice Department found that "Latino drivers are four-to-nine times more likely to be stopped than similarly situated non-Latino drivers."

* A fifth of all the immigration-sweep traffic stops violated Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizures.

* Arpaio's anti-immigration squads responded repeatedly with enforcement patrols to complaints about people with "dark skin" or Spanish speakers.

* Jail guards punish Spanish-speaking inmates for failing to understand their commands in English, sometimes putting them in solitary confinement for that reason.

* Jail guards refuse to accept grievance forms and "tank orders," which allow inmates to request basic daily services, that are written in Spanish.

* Guards pressure Latino inmates to sign voluntary deportation forms. (That allegation helped lead to today's announcement by Homeland Security that the 287(g)cross-training program was being taken out of the jails.

* Arpaio's office retaliates against its critics by subjecting them to "retaliatory detentions and arrests without cause, unfounded civil lawsuits, and other baseless complaints."


* A legal U.S. resident who allegedly failed to use his turn signal was made to sit on a curb for 15 minutes, then arrested and jailed for 13 days on a bogus charge that was dismissed in court.

* A legal U.S. resident and his U.S. citizen son invited deputies into their home during a raid on a suspect drop house next door. The deputies proceeded to search the home without consent or a warrant, handcuffed the man and his son, then had them sit on the sidewalk next to the people being busted from the neighboring house. They were detained for an hour before being released without any citation.

[hater]

bye bye "sheriff"

2XiYUYcpsT4

[CosmicCowboy]

One year anniversary of Agent Brian Terry's death. Media circus brought to you by the same guys that brought you "Fast and Furious".

[hater]

One year anniversary of Agent Brian Terry's death. Media circus brought to you by the same guys that brought you "Fast and Furious".

conspiracy theory alert

tinfoil hats sold here:
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[CosmicCowboy]

conspiracy theory alert

tinfoil hats sold here:
http://zapatopi.net/afdb/

sheeple alert.

sorry, but the wizard is fresh out of brains.

[ChumpDumper]

One year anniversary of Agent Brian Terry's death.Which blog told you that?

[Winehole23]

Obama/Holder Justice Department.

Nuff said.Investigation began five months before Obama took office.

Rephrase?

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accused of<>charged with

if a Human-American has an arrest record, but no conviction, good luck getting job.

if a sheriff

a) $10Ms misspent

b) refuses to pursue sex crimes

c) harasses, intimidates, arrests, jails Human-Americans for Driving-While-Brown

he's an untouched hero.

[CosmicCowboy]

Investigation began five months before Obama took office.

Rephrase?

nope

so was the black panther voter intimidation investigation.

We saw how that one turned out.

[greyforest]

there's just never enough hatred! arpaio has always done his best to generate some more for us all.

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Arpaio is elected, so he's hating on what his voters hate. 10Ks of them certainly use cheap illegal labor for yard, etc work, or buy stuff from businesses that use illegals.

[Winehole23]

also being investigated for not pursuing sex offenders
Now other law enforcement officials in Arizona are criticizing Arpaio as well. One is the former assistant police chief of El Mirage, the Phoenix suburb from which many of the allegations stem. The town’s police department disbanded in 2005 for a two-year period, and its cases were temporarily transferred to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. When the department reorganized, it found Arpaio hadn’t followed up on the child molestation cases. Former Assistant Police Chief Bill Louis called the mishandling “apparent gross negligence.” That many of the alleged victims are children of immigrants should surprise no one.


All Arpaio has been able to muster is a meek reply. “If there were any victims, I apologize to those victims,” he has told media. Then he tried to claim that Democrats were out to get him. It’s a political hit.


Enough evidence exists that Republican Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl felt moved to comment. “Victims of abuse not only deserve the respect of law enforcement, but their rights must also be protected throughout the criminal process,” a statement released on behalf of both senators said.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/01/07/134692/commentary-sheriff-joe-arpaio.html#storylink=omni_popular

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Perry Selects Sheriff Joe Arpaio As AZ Campaign Chair

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/01/07/399765/rick-perry-sheriff-joe-arpaio-campaign/

Perry skillfully pursuing the Latino vote.

[Winehole23]

Arpaio's legal eagle faces disbarment:


At 9 a.m. today, the state's presiding disciplinary judge for attorneys will read verdicts in the ethics cases of former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and two of his former deputies.


Together, they face allegations of 33 ethical violations stemming from years of political and legal battles within Maricopa County government.


Judge William O'Neil will read findings of fact and conclusions of law for each count. Then, he will announce whether Thomas and former Deputy County Attorney Lisa Aubuchon will lose their licenses to practice law or face lesser sanctions. He will also disclose whether a third former prosecutor, Rachel Alexander, will be suspended from practice or face some lesser sanction.


Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/2012/04/09/20120409verdict-andrew-thomas-ethics-case-due-today.html#ixzz1re778Tt6

[Winehole23]

Charges cover a variety of allegations, including conflict of interest for holding press conferences to denounce the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, which was his client, and threatening county officials with litigation; falsely claiming a judge had filed Bar complaints against Thomas, in order to have the judge removed from a case; and seeking indictments against county officials to burden or embarrass them. In one case, the charges allege, Thomas and Aubuchon brought criminal charges against a county supervisor even though they knew that the statute of limitations had already expired on the offenses.


The most serious allegations involve filing criminal charges against a sitting Maricopa County Superior Court judge without probable cause in order to stop a court hearing. Several of the allegations of ethical misconduct revolve around a federal civil racketeering lawsuit claiming that judges and county officials conspired against Thomas and Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The independent Bar counsel appointed by the Arizona Supreme Court claims that the three prosecutors were incompetent in drafting the racketeering complaint, and that they filed it for purely political reasons against people they had already charged criminally or who they thought had filed earlier Bar complaints against them.


Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/2012/04/09/20120409verdict-andrew-thomas-ethics-case-due-today.html#ixzz1re7z6xzl

[Winehole23]

even more: http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/the_prosecutor_on_trial_ex-maricopa_co._atty_faces_disbarment_for_political/

[Winehole23]

Thomas and Aubuchon disbarred:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/88738575/Thomas-Aubuchon-Alexander-opinion#fullscreen

[LnGrrrR]

Obama/Holder Justice Department.

Nuff said.

First off, I'm pretty sure the Sheriff dept falls under the Executive branch...

Second of all, do you really think Obama is determining each town's sheriffs for them?

He's a two-bit tyrant, and the citizens of Maricopa Country are idiots.

[lefty]

http://i.qkme.me/43nt.jpg

[Nbadan]

They were Republican Arizona’s golden boys, the plain-spoken, get-tough sheriff and his legal and political foil, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and attorney Andrew Thomas. According to a post at Talking Points Memo, Thomas “might have had a bright career in Arizona politics,” but instead is today facing disbarment, criminal charges and professional disgrace.

In his six-year reign as Maricopa County’s top prosecutor, Thomas and Sheriff Arpaio went on a legal rampage against their perceived political enemies, drumming up and pursuing criminal charges that they knew were false, charges that rarely held up under scrutiny. As a result, say investigators, Thomas “undermined the public trust and inflicted great damage to the system of justice. The only way to restore that trust and to repair the damage to the system is to disbar Thomas.”

Those remarks came at the end of a two-month investigation last year that implicated Thomas as well as two aides, Lisa Aubuchon and Rachel Alexander, whose law licenses are also in jeopardy. Thomas’s attorneys have called the investigation a partisan witch hunt, even quoting the film “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” in their final filing on behalf of Thomas in December.

“We found a witch,” they wrote, purportedly speaking as the public officials who filed charges against Thomas, “May we burn her?”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/10/sheriff-joe-arpaios-top-lawyer-facing-disbarment/

[spursncowboys]

How dare sheriff joe detain criminals

[Winehole23]

How dare sheriff joe detain criminals

Arpaio admits he ignored court orders, will apologize for racial profiling and create a fund to compensate people whose rights he trampled. Whether he can avoid criminal referral by doing so will be up to a judge.

http://kjzz.org/content/115134/arpaio-admits-violating-court-orders-agrees-contempt-finding

[Winehole23]

contempt charges may stick:


Sgt. Brett Palmer testified that Arpaio had personally instructed him to continue enforcing federal immigration law after Judge G. Murray Snow had prohibited the practice.http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2015/04/21/arpaio-contempt-hearing-opens-abrk/26121557/

[boutons_deux]

crazy-assed Oath Keepers, who say sheriffs are the supreme interperters/enforcers of the Constitution, gonna show up and parade around with their weaponry for FREEDOM! LIBERTY!.

[RandomGuy]

How dare sheriff joe detain criminals


Now other law enforcement officials in Arizona are criticizing Arpaio as well. One is the former assistant police chief of El Mirage, the Phoenix suburb from which many of the allegations stem. The town’s police department disbanded in 2005 for a two-year period, and its cases were temporarily transferred to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. When the department reorganized, it found Arpaio hadn’t followed up on the child molestation cases. Former Assistant Police Chief Bill Louis called the mishandling “apparent gross negligence.” That many of the alleged victims are children of immigrants should surprise no one.


All Arpaio has been able to muster is a meek reply. “If there were any victims, I apologize to those victims,” he has told media. Then he tried to claim that Democrats were out to get him. It’s a political hit.


Enough evidence exists that Republican Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl felt moved to comment. “Victims of abuse not only deserve the respect of law enforcement, but their rights must also be protected throughout the criminal process,” a statement released on behalf of both senators said.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/01/07/134692/commentary-sheriff-joe-arpaio.html


Unless of course they are child molesters. Then he doesn't seem to care as much, for some reason.

Self-aggrandizing sheriff can haz press conferences... as opposed to doing his job...

[Winehole23]

Arpaio's contempt for a federal judge surely qualifies him for a law enforcement job somewhere.

[Winehole23]

May have worn out his welcome in Maricopa County as a lawman. Maybe he'll run for political office.

[boutons_deux]

Sheriff Joe Arpaio Admits Hiring PI To Investigate Wife Of Federal Judge


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/arizona-sheriff-arpaio-hired-investigator-judges-wife-testimony?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

[Winehole23]

Arpaio's office has a history of investigating his opponents. Two elected county supervisors and a judge were among those investigated and charged with crimes in the past decade after feuding with the sheriff's office.

The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against the sheriff to look into abuse-of-power allegations over the political feuds.

[Infinite_limit]

Read the accusations. Looks like guy was ridding of Ignorance. Sucks if you're brown but USA will remain run by Whites for the foreseeable future. No matter how many kids the other races have. It's about quality not quantity

[Winehole23]

:lol

[Winehole23]

looks bad for Arpaio, IL. abuse of power charges would put him in very small subset of lawmen. as an LEO, Arpaio is probably toast if it's found he instructed others to ignore court orders.

[Winehole23]

tuff on crime, anti-immigrant bona fides, check.

upholding the constitution and all that? not so much.

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tuff on crime, anti-immigrant bona fides, check.

upholding the constitution and all that? not so much.

I bet he's a member of Oath Keepers

"The Constitution simply does not allow states to order federal officials to do anything. Under our Constitution, federal law is “the supreme law of the land (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacy_Clause),” so when Congress enacts an otherwise valid federal law and empowers federal officers to enforce it, the states have no power whatsoever to limit that enforcement or place conditions on it.

Disturbingly, the bill may also be connected to a radical anti-government group known as the “Oath Keepers.” The Oath Keepers is a right-wing group that pushes local law enforcement to pledge to defy federal “orders” the Oath Keepers believe are unconstitutional (http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/05/31/99931/oath-keeper-sheriff/). Their website is riddled with paranoid rhetoric (http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2009/03/03/declaration-of-orders-we-will-not-obey/) about government officials “disarm[ing] the American people,” “confiscat[ing] the property of the American people, including food and other essential supplies,” and “blockad[ing] American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps.”

In early 2008, the Oath Keepers’ founder warned that a “dominatrix-in-chief” named “Hitlery Clinton” would impose a police state on America and shoot all resisters (http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/oath-keepers). After Democratic primary voters chose President Obama over Clinton, the Oath Keepers simply rewrote their paranoid fantasy to include a taller, African-American lead. Rep. Gowan, the lead sponsor of this bill, is listed as a member of the Tucson Oath Keepers on their Meetup page (http://www.meetup.com/Tucson-Oath-Keepers/members/2439048/)."

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/03/16/445976/az-lawmaker-tied-to-radical-oath-keepers-pushes-unconstitutional-bill-restricting-federal-law-enforcement/

O.K. sheriffs are the supreme interpreters of the Constitution, not the judicial branch.

[Winehole23]

I don't know if Arpaio is an Oath Keeper, but that's sort of what I meant when I joked about contempt of court and abuse of power charges being listed as qualifications on Arpaio's next resume, somewhere.

[Winehole23]

bad justice is expensive. Fox News Latino reports:


The $45 million price tag consists of: $14.6 million spent over the last 18 months to carry out court-ordered changes at the agency; another $23.8 million budgeted over the next year to cover even more compliance costs; and $6.8 million in fees for lawyers on both sides.


Taxpayers are expected to face even more costs as Arpaio's office remains under the court's supervision and the possibility looms for another racial-profiling trial that the county will have to fund.

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2015/05/19/sheriff-joe-arpaio-racial-profiling-case-costing-arizona-taxpayers-nearly-45/

[pgardn]

The county includes Scottsdale.

So they will be taking from the rich.

And giving to the lawyers and harassed Hispanics.
And possibly political opponents.
Man I wish I could hide behind the financial backing of an entire county.

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Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio asks public's help with legal fees

Withh his legal fees mounting and a trial turning increasingly personal, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is turning to the public for money and the legal system for a new judge.

Arpaio said in a letter to supporters that he doesn't have the money to continue paying for attorneys out of his own pocket, adding that he feels "targeted" by the immigration rights groups that have sued him to stop what they say are racist policies targeting Latinos.

"In some instances I have to personally pay for attorneys to represent me in these cases," Arpaio wrote in an email Thursday. "I do not have the personal wealth or the wherewithal to keep up with the costly demands of paying for attorneys to defend me."

Arpaio made the plea while awaiting a decision by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow on whether the sheriff broke the law in failing to carry out a 2011 court order to refrain from bias against minorities.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ff-arpaio-20150524-story.html

sniff sniff

[russellgoat]

The rich wants to stop people like Arpio so they can keep getting wetbacks for cheap labor tbh...

[Winehole23]

In an angry rebuke, a judge on Friday ordered the U.S. Marshals Service to seize a collection of records from Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office and leveled harsh criticism at the sheriff's lawyers for failing to turn over documents that had been requested months ago in a racial profiling case.
U.S. District Judge Murray Snow's criticism centered on the agency's failure to hand over more than 1,400 identification documents in a related investigation into allegations that deputies pocketed items during busts.
The judge also focused on the agency's refusal to turn over 50 hard drives from Arpaio's secret investigation involving the judge.


Arpaio attorney John Masterson said an official who is monitoring the sheriff's office on behalf of Snow had resorted to threatening to have a court hearing called in a bid to get the records turned over.
"I am sorry your feelings are hurt, but we need to resolve this matter," Snow told Masterson at an emergency hearing Friday.


Robert Warshaw, the official monitoring the sheriff's office for the judge, said he learned the ID documents were slated for destruction and that there was an order at the sheriff's office that the existence of the ID records shouldn't be voluntarily revealed.


The court monitor said the unit of the sheriff's office that stores evidence is a lockbox for keeping unflattering documents from public or court scrutiny.Arpaio didn't attend the hearing. The sheriff's office declined to comment on Warshaw's comments, saying only that the truth of the matter will be revealed in the future.


Warshaw is examining allegations that members of Arpaio's immigration smuggling squad and other deputies regularly pocketed items from people during traffic stops and busts of safe houses used during smuggling. The judge has complained that Arpaio'soffice is conducting inadequate internal investigations of officer misconduct.


The 1,400 ID records were turned in by a sheriff's sergeant who claims he had them to help teach a class on fraudulent identification, Warshaw said, noting the sergeant never in fact conducted such training.


Warshaw said he tried to find out who at the sheriff's office issued the order not to voluntarily reveal the IDs but was told that information was protected by attorney-client privilege.


"We did not lie to the monitor or keep that from the monitor," said Arpaio attorney Michele Iafrate.


The court monitor also is examining Arpaio's secret investigation involving the judge, who dealt Arpaio one of his toughest legal defeats in 2013 when he concluded deputies had racially profiled Latinos.


Snow has said the investigation was intended to show an alleged conspiracy between him and federal authorities who are pressing a separate civil rights lawsuit against the sheriff.


Arpaio, who in the past has been accused of retaliating against his critics, insists there were no investigations of Snow.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/joe-arpaio-marshals-seize-records

[Winehole23]

It isn't the first time Arpaio's office has been accused of withholding documents in the profiling case.


Earlier this year, Arpaio acknowledged a contempt-of-court violation in failing to hand over traffic-stop recordings that had been requested before the 2012 trial.


Five years ago, the agency acknowledged that its officers had deleted emails on the sheriff's immigration patrols and destroyed officers' records of traffic stops.


Arpaio initially failed — but was eventually forced — to turn over his own personal immigration file that included letters from supporters who sought crackdowns on day laborers.

same

[Winehole23]

trailing his opponent by 15 points:

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/other-races/301967-poll-sheriff-joe-arpaio-trails-dem-by-15-points

[Winehole23]

side note to music aficionados: as a Federal officer in 1966, Arpaio set up the bust of the Sir Douglas Quintet in Corpus Christi.

[Splits]

Hopefully this race baiting faggot dies in prison