A federal judge in Arizona found Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in contempt of court Friday, saying the controversial lawman deliberately violated court orders, hid evidence and failed to clean up after his department was found to be conducting illegal racial profiling.
“In short, the court finds that the defendants have engaged in multiple acts of misconduct, dishonesty, and bad faith,” Judge G. Murray Snow concluded in a withering 162-page document laying out the case against Sheriff Arpaio.
The controversial sheriff, who’s been in office for more than two decades, has made headlines in the past for investigating President Obama’s birth certificate and, more recently, for endorsing GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump.
The sheriff has also had repeated run-ins with federal authorities who say he’s violated civil rights with the way he’s run his department.
In the current case Judge Snow ruled Sheriff Arpaio’s deputies engaged in illegal racial profiling of Hispanics during traffic stops. The judge ordered the sheriff’s department to take steps to end the behavior, including ordering him to prohibit deputies from stopping people on the belief they may be in the country illegally.
It’s not Sheriff Joe that’s in contempt, it’s the damned judge. “Racial profiling” is NOT against the law, it’s against policy -- political policy.
I’ll be so relieved when these games begin. I’m so tired of the finger-pointing and political BS. It’s time to douche this system gone septic… It’s time to return to the Rule of Law!
When Arpaio endorsed James Richard Perry 4 years ago….he outted himself!!
Sure wish Trump could put Arpaio on the Supreme court when he is elected!
No such thing. Period. “Civil Rights” is dress rehearsal for civil war. It is all one big lie, a ruze that is cultural marxism writ large. And we all been sucked in, fell for it hook line and sinker. Where in all of Christianity and our primal freedoms is there any concept of “civil rights”.
There is no such things as “civil rights”, there is only the rights of men, and defense of those rights.
“Civil Rights” is yankeedom’s 21st century gateway social meme to pogrom, another tactic in the long march to emasculate white Christian heritage and culture, rub out our history, and destroy our heritage and traditions of liberty. “Civil rights” is Kill The Kulak amerikan style.