AZ Sheriff Joe Arpaio faces contempt hearing in profiling case

[DesertRat]

PHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK) -
A federal judge will decide whether Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his top aides deliberately disobeyed a 2013 court order to stop racially profiling Latinos.

The hearing, set to begin Tuesday, will be one of the stiffest legal challenges the hard line immigration sheriff has faced.

Judge Murray Snow assigned a federal monitor to oversee the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in 2013. The same judge will now decide whether Arpaio and his top brass are in contempt of court for ignoring the monitor oversight and judge's orders – and whether it rises to the level of a crime.

“I think for much of this process Arpaio has tried to wipe his hands of any wrongdoing. So we want to get to the bottom of this and what we expect to show is he knew he was deliberately disobeying this order,” said Alessandra Soler, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, which represents the plaintiffs in the case.

http://www.azfamily.com/story/28853660/sheriff-arpaio-faces-federal-contempt-of-court-hearing

[niyad]

1. too bad he isn't facing his imminent imprisonment instead. in his own jail, complete with pink

underwear and bologna sandwiches.

[1StrongBlackMan]

2. And tent cities, in 110 degree weather. n/t

[niyad]

3. you are correct.

on the other hand, staking him on an ant hill, naked, in that desert, smearing him with honey. . . .

[1StrongBlackMan]

4. Sheriff Joe ... Naked ... Brain Bleach, Stat! ...

But the ant hill thing reminded me ... AZ ants are pretty discerning.

I was walking on campus and saw someone drop an order of In & Out Burger fries. I thought, "Oh Man ... She looked like she was really enjoying those fries."

As I passed the spot where she dropped them, I saw a really bust ant hill about 4 feet away, and thought, "Well, the colony will be fed."

3 days later, the fires were still there.

[niyad]

5. I was going to apologize in advance for that image. mea maxima culpa!!!!

good for those ants--as you said, discerning. joe might be safe after all.

[Fred Sanders]

6. Vegetable bologna sandwiches....as America's Fascist Sheriff went veggie for prisoners....

to punish prisoners even more, also an act of mass criminality outside his constitutional jurisdiction.

[niyad]

7. that man is despicable beyond belief. too bad some desert critter doesn't get him. but, as 1sbm

pointed out, even the critters are too discerning.

[DesertRat]

8. That would be the best punishment for him. nt