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I appreciate the sad import of their failure to bring Wall Street to justice, indeed I do, but at least the DoJ under this Admin can do something right! :)

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona, asking a federal court to prevent the brazen and outspoken lawman from racially profiling Latinos, abusing them in his jails and retaliating against his critics.

"The police are supposed to protect and support our community, not divide them," said Assistant Atty. Gen. Thomas E. Perez, head of the Justice Department's civil rights division. "This is an abuse of power case involving a sheriff and a sheriff's office that has ignored the Constitution."

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Phoenix, alleges that Arpaio's Maricopa County department engages in a "pattern of unconstitutional conduct" against Latinos, especially immigrants.

Justice Department officials in Washington are asking the court to name an independent monitor to oversee the sheriff's office, develop reform policies to better staff the jails and patrol the county, and possibly find Arpaio and other top sheriff's officials in contempt of court if they do not make changes in a community whose Latino population has grown by 47% over the last decade.
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As a resident of Arizona

and Maricopa county, I am very happy to see the DOJ going after "Joke" Arpaio but we have already spent millions in court costs due to this turd.
 
Suck it, Joe! I just wish they could find some way to make it a criminal prosecution and put you in with all those people you hate! :D
 
vetteman said:
Let's see a week or so ago we played the women's contraception rights game, we quickly went to the gay marriage rights game, and now we're going to the Hispanic rights game. Keep America divided for the sake of the Obama vote game is getting a little sickening.
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These are not "games," they are "issues." The difference being, issues are matters of legitimate public concern, which everything you list is. And Arpaio and his ilk are the dividers here.
 
Meanwhile, the Freeptards are screaming about "states' rights" and saying it's just to take the spotlight off Holder and shit . . .

Schadenfreude is the best kind of freude! :D
 
vetteman said:
You're full of shit. The VAST majority of Americans are not concerned with Obama's vote getting schemes, they are concerned about the fucking economy.
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The likes of Romney can't win on that! This is a man best known for firing people and liking it.

vetteman said:
Fuck Eric Holder and his Soviet style show trials . . .
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Such as? (Not this one, anyway.)
 
vetteman said:
You're full of shit. The VAST majority of Americans are not concerned with Obama's vote getting schemes, they are concerned about the fucking economy. That Sheriff has been re-elected time and time again by the people of Arizona. Fuck Eric Holder and his Soviet style show trials, and fuck the terrorist defending law firm he comes from.
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he's re-elected by his county.. not by the state

this is a guy that's been discovered to have misspent over 100 million tax dollars on his campaigns, trips to Disneyland, the investigations of his political rivals, and a half a million dollar bus

he's the only law enforcement official in US history to not co-operate with the Department of Justice when they came to investigate complains over illegal search and seizure.. and finally had to be legally compelled to do so as to avoid criminal charges

shit.. the laundry list goes on...


if this was a lefty.. you'd be screaming for his head, and rightfully so... but instead, you're cheerleading someone who is the epitome of the stereotype of the " corrupt sherrif"
 
More details:

The Justice Department filed suit Thursday against Maricopa County, Ariz. Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his office for unlawfully discriminating against Latinos, and in turn, disregarding basic constitutional rights.

Arpaio said Wednesday that he'll fight the charges in court. "And then we'll find out the real story. They're telling me how to run my organization," he said. "I'd like to get this resolved, but I'm not going to give up my authority to the federal government. It's as simple as that."

Here are some of the disturbing allegations from the 32-page lawsuit about the conduct of Arpaio and his office. (Read the full lawsuit here, and the story about it here.)

Maricopa County Employees Call Latinos Derogatory Names

Jail employees frequently refer to Latinos as "wetbacks," "Mexican bitches," and "stupid Mexicans," according to the lawsuit. An email that included a photography of a Chihahua dressed in swimming gear with the caption "A Rare Photo of a Mexican Navy Seal" was widely distributed by sheriff's office supervisors.

Officers Mistreat Latinos In Routine Traffic Enforcement

The lawsuit recounts how a Latina woman who was five-months pregnant and a U.S. citizen was stopped as she pulled into the driveway. "After she exited her car, the officer then insisted that she sit on the hood of the car. When she refused, the officer grabbed her arms, puled them behind her back, and slammed her, stomach first, into the vehicle three times. He then dragged her to the patrol car and shoved her into the backseat," reads the complaint.

She was cited for failure to provide identification, which was later changed to failure to provide proof of insurance. The issue was resolved when the woman proved she had insurance to a court.

In yet another case, two officers followed a Latina U.S. citizen a quarter of a mile to her home without flashing their lights. When she arrived home, they insisted that she stay in the car. The reason for the stop was a "non-functioning license plate light." After she tried to enter her home, officers took her to the ground, kneed her in the back and handcuffed her. She was brought to a Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) substation and cited for "disorderly conduct," which was later dismissed, according to the lawsuit.

Latinos Are Indiscriminately Detained In Immigration Raids

A Latina born in the United States was taken into custody for four hours in a raid to determine her immigration status. Arpaio was quoted in response, "That's just normal police work. You sometimes take people in for probable cause for questioning and they're released." The suit notes that the reason for her detainment -- being Latina and present during a raid -- were insufficient.

Arpaio And MCSO Staff Foster Discrimination Against Latinos

Arpaio received a letter reading, "If you have dark skin, then you have dark skin. Unfortunately, that is the look of the Mexican illegals who are here illegally. ... I'm begging you to come over ... and round them all up." The sheriff labeled this as "intelligence" and forwarded to his deputy chief of enforcement operations for someone to "handle this."

Upon receiving a letter backing the policy of "stopping Mexicans to make sure they are legal," he sent a letter of appreciation to the authors and kept three copies for himself, according to the lawsuit.

An email circulated among MCSO staff had an image of a fake driver's license from "Mexifornia" and listed the driver's class as "illegal alien."

MCSO Employees Fail To Provide Assistance To Prisoners With Limited English

The failure to provide adequate language assistance caused some female Latina prisoners to remain with sheets or pants soiled from menstruation, alleges the suit.

Others have allegedly been put in solitary confinement for "extended periods of time" for not understanding a command in English.

MCSO Arrests Arpaio Critics Expressing Their First Amendment Rights

The suit claims on multiple occasions that people were arrested for merely applauding against the office's immigration policies. The judge presiding over the case of the arrestees found that the deputy who made the arrest "believes it is his role to make uncomfortable anyone who express[es] views that disagree with the sheriff" and that he had "trampled" over the First Amendment. The court acquitted them.
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I fist pumped in my kitchen when I heard about this. Sheriff Joe spoke to my grade 8 class. I remember him being an incredibly commanding and persuasive presence. He knew exactly which buttons to push to elicit your agreement. He made us laugh and was nimble with deflection - he made dehumanizing prisoners sound reasonable with rhetorical sleight of hand - "You guys like dogs, right? So wouldn't you rather take care of PUPPIES than CRIMINALS??" We, a group of thirteen year olds, nodded emphatically.

I left that room proud of my sheriff. Then, I grew up. I can't help but consider anyone who agrees with him as having preteen level critical reasoning skills or lower.
 
April 23, 2012

An audio recording has surfaced of an Arizona sheriff playing his refusal to cooperate in a racial profiling investigation for laughs-
at a fundraiser for an anti-illegal immigration group in Texas. He ridicules politicians who sought the probe and displayed contempt
toward federal authorities who were — and are still — investigating him on two fronts. The recording of the Texas speech was given
to The Associated Press recently by Joel Robbins, a Phoenix attorney and longtime Arpaio critic who said he bought a copy from the
group after reading about it in a newspaper.

http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/04/23/arpaio-played-probe-for-laughs/
 
KingOrfeo said:
These are not "games," they are "issues." The difference being, issues are matters of legitimate public concern, which everything you list is. And Arpaio and his ilk are the dividers here.
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"legitimate public concern" = straw man issues
 
vetteman said:
Let's see a week or so ago we played the women's contraception rights game, we quickly went to the gay marriage rights game, and now we're going to the Hispanic rights game. Keep America divided for the sake of the Obama vote game is getting a little sickening.
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It's tit for tat time.

What the hell does a Sheriff have to do with small government?

What does it say about Big Government that it cannot even defend its own borders while at the same time trying to defend Kabul as if that's even a realistic scenario...
 
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