Infamous R****t Sheriff Arpaio Found in Contempt
May 16, 2016 13:56:29 #
Published May 16, 2016
By Moses Frenck
The Arizona sheriff notorious for his disdain of immigrants was found in contempt by a federal court on Friday for repeatedly violating court orders to stop racially profiling Latinos.
A hero to the anti-immigration movement, six-term Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, together with three deputies, were found in civil contempt by United States District Court Judge G. Murray Snow for disobeying his orders requiring Arpaio and his deputies to stop detaining Latinos based solely on the suspicion that they were in the country illegally.
“In short, the Court finds that the Defendants have engaged in multiple acts of misconduct, dishonesty, and bad faith with respect to the Plaintiff class and the protection of its rights,” Snow wrote in his ruling.
The case stems from the 2011 civil case brought by Latino drivers and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) against Arpaio and his deputies. In May 2013, Snow determined Arpaio had encouraged his deputies to scrutinize Latino drivers more than white drivers during traffic stops. Snow said Arpaio’s office profiled and illegally detained Latinos, violating their constitutional rights, and ordered a significant overhaul of the sheriff’s office practices. However, Arpaio and his top deputies repeatedly — and publicly — ignored the court’s orders.
At a Houston rally in 2015, Arpaio told supporters that he had violated the order “out of spite” and had arrested 500 people. He also admitted to letting his officers conduct immigration patrols for 18 months following the court’s order to cease the practice.
Arpaio, 83, who calls himself “America’s Toughest Sheriff,” was also accused of launching a secret investigation into Snow and his wife in an effort to get him removed from the case.
In his ruling Friday, Snow also found Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Jerry Sheridan, retired Chief Brian Sands and Lt. Joe Souza in civil contempt.
Snow scheduled a hearing for May 31 to determine options to compel Arpaio and his deputies to obey his orders, including one option of appointing an outside agency to take over the sheriff’s office. The case can also be referred for federal criminal prosecution that could expose Arpaio and his deputies to fines and jail time.
“Any public official who has been found guilty of racial profiling and ignores the orders of the court cannot be entrusted with the safety and well-being of the community and should step down in shame,” the immigrant rights group Puente Arizona said in a statement Friday.
“The court has found that Sheriff Arpaio intentionally and repeatedly violated federal court orders,” said Cecillia Wang, director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, in a statement. “His recalcitrance ends here. Strong remedies are needed to protect the community’s rights, starting with internal investigations that root out and punish misconduct. Willing or not, the sheriff will be made to comply with the law.”
By Moses Frenck
The Arizona sheriff notorious for his disdain of immigrants was found in contempt by a federal court on Friday for repeatedly violating court orders to stop racially profiling Latinos.
A hero to the anti-immigration movement, six-term Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, together with three deputies, were found in civil contempt by United States District Court Judge G. Murray Snow for disobeying his orders requiring Arpaio and his deputies to stop detaining Latinos based solely on the suspicion that they were in the country illegally.
“In short, the Court finds that the Defendants have engaged in multiple acts of misconduct, dishonesty, and bad faith with respect to the Plaintiff class and the protection of its rights,” Snow wrote in his ruling.
The case stems from the 2011 civil case brought by Latino drivers and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) against Arpaio and his deputies. In May 2013, Snow determined Arpaio had encouraged his deputies to scrutinize Latino drivers more than white drivers during traffic stops. Snow said Arpaio’s office profiled and illegally detained Latinos, violating their constitutional rights, and ordered a significant overhaul of the sheriff’s office practices. However, Arpaio and his top deputies repeatedly — and publicly — ignored the court’s orders.
At a Houston rally in 2015, Arpaio told supporters that he had violated the order “out of spite” and had arrested 500 people. He also admitted to letting his officers conduct immigration patrols for 18 months following the court’s order to cease the practice.
Arpaio, 83, who calls himself “America’s Toughest Sheriff,” was also accused of launching a secret investigation into Snow and his wife in an effort to get him removed from the case.
In his ruling Friday, Snow also found Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Jerry Sheridan, retired Chief Brian Sands and Lt. Joe Souza in civil contempt.
Snow scheduled a hearing for May 31 to determine options to compel Arpaio and his deputies to obey his orders, including one option of appointing an outside agency to take over the sheriff’s office. The case can also be referred for federal criminal prosecution that could expose Arpaio and his deputies to fines and jail time.
“Any public official who has been found guilty of racial profiling and ignores the orders of the court cannot be entrusted with the safety and well-being of the community and should step down in shame,” the immigrant rights group Puente Arizona said in a statement Friday.
“The court has found that Sheriff Arpaio intentionally and repeatedly violated federal court orders,” said Cecillia Wang, director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, in a statement. “His recalcitrance ends here. Strong remedies are needed to protect the community’s rights, starting with internal investigations that root out and punish misconduct. Willing or not, the sheriff will be made to comply with the law.”
May 16, 2016 14:24:54 #
democratin2016 Just whose rights Cecillia Wang are you so called violating? Since when do ILLELAGS in a community have rights to even be in these UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ACLU IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS PROJECT is just a project and by definition; "a proposal of something to be done; a scheme". Then take "scheme" Just what is your results you want from doing the scheme Cecillia Wang? as for democratin2016 do you want to see Sheriff Arpaio taken down? Here is a Sheriff that has stood through how many e******ns? He is the one who the citizens want as there "PROTECTOR".
May 16, 2016 14:39:42 #
marjorie kinne wrote:
democratin2016 Just whose rights Cecillia Wang ar... (show quote)
people have to follow the law...like you people say about Hillary all day long. Arizona? Citizens? Remember this is the sate that did not even want an MLK holiday and had to lose revenues and a Super Bowl in order to make them comply with the rest of the country. So don't ever use Arizona as an example of any type of virtue. I wish Michelle Obama was there when the sea hag Brewer pointed her finger in Obama's face. I bet she would have had second thoughts then....haha.......don't ever ask me anything about a state that would be better off as a parking lot. When I drive to Houston, I h**e that I even have to buy gas there.
May 16, 2016 14:50:18 #
Good. Drive around us moron.
Believe me , your kind won't be missed.
P.S.
Brewer is on the short list for your next V.P.
Believe me , your kind won't be missed.
P.S.
Brewer is on the short list for your next V.P.
A Democrat In 2016 wrote:
people have to follow the law...like you people sa... (show quote)
May 16, 2016 14:53:25 #
missinglink wrote:
Good. Drive around us moron.
Believe me , your kind won't be missed.
P.S.
Brewer is on the short list for your next V.P.
Believe me , your kind won't be missed.
P.S.
Brewer is on the short list for your next V.P.
oh so you now you are going from bad to worse...the Sea Hag off of the Popeye cartoon...no, Alice the Goon..............
May 16, 2016 14:54:32 #
missinglink wrote:
Good. Drive around us moron.
Believe me , your kind won't be missed.
P.S.
Brewer is on the short list for your next V.P.
Believe me , your kind won't be missed.
P.S.
Brewer is on the short list for your next V.P.
If only I had the mileage-I get about 450miles max on a tank......
May 16, 2016 15:02:38 #
I pay for your extra fuel stop. Just stay out of Az.
A Democrat In 2016 wrote:
If only I had the mileage-I get about 450miles max on a tank......
May 16, 2016 15:52:18 #
missinglink wrote:
I pay for your extra fuel stop. Just stay out of Az.
that's a deal.....I lived in the Mojave when I worked in the defense industry buy LA and the beach was 2 hrs away Ridgecrest then 1 hour away-Lancaster. I was born on an island and raised on the coast and live near the beach now so telling me to stay out of the desert, with bigots also is hardly going to be my punishment.
May 16, 2016 15:57:39 #
A Democrat In 2016 wrote:
that's a deal.....I lived in the Mojave when I worked in the defense industry buy LA and the beach was 2 hrs away Ridgecrest then 1 hour away-Lancaster. I was born on an island and raised on the coast and live near the beach now so telling me to stay out of the desert, with bigots also is hardly going to be my punishment.
May 16, 2016 15:58:56 #
It's not all about punishment for you sport. 
It's about us. Stay out. Nobody here would put up
with you for 10 minutes. We have all kinds here but
yours , well , you would just piss a few people off
untill you meet the 1 in 10.
So save us all the trouble. Drive around.
It's about us. Stay out. Nobody here would put up
with you for 10 minutes. We have all kinds here but
yours , well , you would just piss a few people off
untill you meet the 1 in 10.
So save us all the trouble. Drive around.
A Democrat In 2016 wrote:
that's a deal.....I lived in the Mojave when I worked in the defense industry buy LA and the beach was 2 hrs away Ridgecrest then 1 hour away-Lancaster. I was born on an island and raised on the coast and live near the beach now so telling me to stay out of the desert, with bigots also is hardly going to be my punishment.
May 16, 2016 16:02:54 #
missinglink wrote:
It's not all about punishment for you sport.
It's about us. Stay out. Nobody here would put up
with you for 10 minutes. We have all kinds here but
yours , well , you would just piss a few people off
untill you meet the 1 in 10.
So save us all the trouble. Drive around.
It's about us. Stay out. Nobody here would put up
with you for 10 minutes. We have all kinds here but
yours , well , you would just piss a few people off
untill you meet the 1 in 10.
So save us all the trouble. Drive around.
Keep the s**t hole to yourselves but since I pay taxes, I doubt like hell I'll take a longer trip because some yokels want me to do so. I'm from Texas and lived in the desert-seem em all-skinheads, survivalists, separatists...the desert seems to attract America's finest..
May 16, 2016 16:06:47 #
It's funny that you point to bigotry when bigotry has zero to do with this.
It's a-holes we don't like here. It's not the color of your skin 2016. More
like the color of your mind and soul.
It's a-holes we don't like here. It's not the color of your skin 2016. More
like the color of your mind and soul.
A Democrat In 2016 wrote:
Keep the s**t hole to yourselves but since I pay taxes, I doubt like hell I'll take a longer trip because some yokels want me to do so. I'm from Texas and lived in the desert-seem em all-skinheads, survivalists, separatists...the desert seems to attract America's finest..
May 16, 2016 16:14:50 #
missinglink wrote:
It's funny that you point to bigotry when bigotry has zero to do with this.
It's a-holes we don't like here. It's not the color of your skin 2016. More
like the color of your mind and soul.
It's a-holes we don't like here. It's not the color of your skin 2016. More
like the color of your mind and soul.
yeah right...read the article and see how certain people were profiled more than w****s. Between that and the MLK thing, there is a general r****t theme to this state. Every Mexican citizen that was here legally that was profiled makes it all about race. If it were up to the right, we would still have segregation, poll taxes and a host of unfair r****t laws. That is why states rights will never suffice. Wherever bigots and concentrated, the laws reflect bigoted thinking...plan and simple. This fool was even breaking the law ad that is okay with you all. many of you would prefer lynch mobs over jury trials if it was allowed. In some cases, they are one in the same.
May 16, 2016 16:20:23 #
Thats one county and most residents are against the practice. He will be gone this next e******n. Hopefully.
Bare in mind he was not re-elected on that issue. I don't like it like most. Again. that is one county sheriff.
The rest of your post below is your typical blather. Smearing everyone. Typical of your ilk.
Bare in mind he was not re-elected on that issue. I don't like it like most. Again. that is one county sheriff.
The rest of your post below is your typical blather. Smearing everyone. Typical of your ilk.
A Democrat In 2016 wrote:
yeah right...read the article and see how certain ... (show quote)
May 16, 2016 16:24:34 #
missinglink wrote:
Thats one county and most residents are against the practice. He will be gone this next e******n. Hopefully.
Bare in mind he was not re-elected on that issue. I don't like it like most. Again. that is one county sheriff.
The rest of your post below is your typical blather. Smearing everyone. Typical of your ilk.
Bare in mind he was not re-elected on that issue. I don't like it like most. Again. that is one county sheriff.
The rest of your post below is your typical blather. Smearing everyone. Typical of your ilk.
awww puleeze.......the right had him as a hero during the last couple of general e******ns as their poster boy for being tough on immigration.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/donald-trump-joe-arpaio-sheriff-arizona-220980
Arpaio has long been a controversial figure both in Arizona and nationally. The sheriff and his deputies were found to have violated the constitutional rights of Latinos in 2013, and in 2015 the federal ruling was mostly upheld. And he’s been sued multiple times. Since he took office in 1993, he’s cost taxpayers $142 million in legal expenses, settlements and court awards, according to the Arizona Republic.
Yet, the man who calls himself “America’s toughest sheriff” has been reelected six times and he’s going for number seven. Trump, who deals with nearly constant protesters and is no stranger to legal fights, has reveled in Arpaio’s endorsement, bringing him up almost constantly on the trail.
“Sheriff Joe Arpaio endorsed me. And if he endorses you, believe me, you are the strongest, from Arizona,” Trump said during the March 4 debate in Detroit.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/donald-trump-joe-arpaio-sheriff-arizona-220980#ixzz48qubqvrf
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