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Panich52

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Sat Mar 21, 2015, 12:19 PM Mar 2015

Sadistic rwnj Sheriff Arpaio admits to crimes in order to avoid trial. Victims: 'This won't fly'

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Sheriff Arpaio admits to crimes in order to avoid trial. Victims: 'This won't fly'

Very quietly this week, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's attorneys filed papers admitting that the blowhard and his deputies committed a crime, several in fact.


Arpaio admitted he violated federal court orders that stem from a racial profiling case filed last year. Lawyers for the sheriff want to call off upcoming hearings to examine the violations, but activists strongly disagree.

Unlike the typical Arpaio blustering press conference, there were no TV cameras to capture this latest stunt. Instead, Arpaio's office filed the papers without comment, hoping the sheriff's admission will keep him off the witness stand in a contempt of court hearing Judge Murray Snow ordered for April 21. Victims of Arpaio's racial profiling and other harassments are having none of it.

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Mary Rose Wilcox was one of several county supervisors, essentially the sheriff's bosses, who criticized his police state tactics, especially during the time Arpaio, Senate President Russell Pearce and County Attorney Andrew Thomas were enacting and approving laws that sanctioned Arpaio's discriminatory policies. Because Wilcox spoke out, she and her husband were targeted; she eventually sued the sheriff for "his systematic campaign of intimidation, abuse and malfeasance," and was awarded $975,000.

For his role in this campaign of bullying and threats, County Attorney Thomas was disbarred in 2012 and later ran for attorney general, where he didn't come close in the GOP primary. Sen. Pearce, author of the "papers please" bill, was recalled in 2011 by a very conservative district in Mesa, and then lost a race to reclaim his seat. Last year, the GOP even booted Pearce from his party position for saying over-the-top bullshit about sterilizing poor women. Of the three Amigos, only Arpaio remains. For now.

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The facts were overwhelming and, once the case came to trial in 2013, Judge Murray Snow, a George W. Bush appointee, ruled that Arpaio's office did indeed use "Hispanic ancestry or race as [a] factor in making law enforcement decisions," the very definition of racial profiling. Judge Snow ordered Arpaio to turn over arrest records, work with a court-appointed monitor and end his infamous "sweeps," where deputies march through neighborhoods and businesses looking for suspects (read: Latinos).

None of Judge Snow's orders was followed; in fact, Arpaio arrogantly bragged to the press that he'd continue conducting sweeps, which he did. After months of stonewalling and noncompliance by Arpaio's office, during which he destroyed evidence, the judge finally had enough and scheduled a contempt of court hearing for April 21. It is that contempt charge, as well as the original profiling indictments, that Sheriff Arpaio admitted to this week.

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Sadistic rwnj Sheriff Arpaio admits to crimes in order to avoid trial. Victims: 'This won't fly' (Original Post) Panich52 Mar 2015 OP
Time to make hubris a federal crime. dixiegrrrrl Mar 2015 #1
Put him in one of his own tent cities phantom power Mar 2015 #2

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
1. Time to make hubris a federal crime.
Sat Mar 21, 2015, 02:46 PM
Mar 2015

Which would instantly criminalize about 98% of the wing nut Republicans, including ALL of this year's crop of pres. hopefuls.

phantom power

(25,966 posts)
2. Put him in one of his own tent cities
Sat Mar 21, 2015, 03:53 PM
Mar 2015

That asshole made his career on the whole "tough on crime" and "no luxuries for criminals" shtick.

But like absolutely every asshole conservative, when it's his ass on the line, suddenly he's all "hey, hey, I'll apologize, let's not be hasty!"


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