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A federal judge on Friday referred Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his second-in-command for criminal prosecution, finding that they ignored and misrepresented to subordinates court orders designed to keep the sheriff’s office from racially profiling Latinos.
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Sheriff Arpaio and Chief Deputy Jerry Sheridan “have a history of obfuscation and subversion of this court’s orders that is as old as this case,” Judge Snow wrote in his order. Sheriff Arpaio and Mr. Sheridan had also made numerous false statements under oath, Judge Snow wrote, and “there is also probable cause to believe that many if not all of the statements were made in an attempt to obstruct any inquiry into their further wrongdoing or negligence.”
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[QUOTE=Joseph Heller]
Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can’t stop them from doing.
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It looks like there are some limits to power, and Catch-22, after all. Sheriff Joe was previously found in civil contempt by this same judge a while ago who took a very long time in deciding whether to refer him for criminal prosecution or not. Sheriff Joe is also up for re-election to his seventh term (and previously spoke at the RNC last month).
The usual Sheriff Joe cultists are blindly calling this particular federal judge a biased liberal who is on some persona vendetta. Sheriff Joe, like Caesar, can apparently do no wrong. But this time, though, it looks like there might be some limits to his power and his ability to cost taxpayers yet more millions defending him and his agency (in reality: settling) against lawsuits from his ball-swinging, poorly thought-out policies and actions.
You really need to work some subtle wit into your posts to get yourself recognized. Get some more practice in the youtube comments sections and come back when you’ve perfected your routine.
Just to demonstrate the abyssal ignorance of aliensshow, Arpaio is in hot water not much for rounding up illegals; other cases, some of them brought by the ACLU, refer to **legal residents **and American citizens that fell in the discriminatory net of Arpaio and their rights were abused or denied as a result.
The latest news means also that Arpaio will cost the shortchanged state millions of dollars more to keep this guy out of prison were he belongs.
And this is still missing the other abuse of the law that Arpaio got into in his efforts to subvert the court:
And as mentioned before Arpaio and Trump are peas in a pod. Trump not repudiating one of his biggest supporters for the presidency after revelations like this one (that were known already months before they joined hips) only demonstrates that Trump will do likewise and instead of politicians of the past that bankrupted the nation in foolish attempts at defending the USA, Trump will bankrupt the nation with all the efforts made just to defend himself from the courts.
At this point in Arizona’s history, the state is a festering boil on America’s ass. Hopefully the citizens will have an awakening at some point, but for now it’s dead zone.
Sadly, he has a lot of support out here.
But, things are slowly changing. McCain faces a tough re-election fight this year.
Who knows, maybe Joe will be voted out before he dies in office.
Why is it only liberals who use the bigotted colloquialism “brown people?” I mean, I know why, I’m just wondering how long it’ll take the slower members of the short bus to catch on.
When I first heard of him, I thought he had the right idea until I found out how he treats pregnant inmates. No matter what she may have done, the baby doesn’t deserve to have a mother (who is likely drug-addicted and malnourished to begin with) who is given inadequate, half-spoiled food, and denied even basic medical care. :mad:
Why is it only conservatives who practice bigotry against people of color? Why are racial characteristics like skin-color permitted to be used in profiling suspects? Why is this kind of behavior acceptable to you, so much so that you accuse someone of bigotry for pointing it out?
“That policeman just beat the living crap out of that black guy over there.”
"You bigot! You referred to his skin color!)
It’s like you care more about words than people. (Oh, wait… Conservatives. Fuck right you do.)
