This is a political witch hunt. Arizona Sheriff Arpaio has upheld the laws in the books in his county. It’s known he had problems with Janet Napolitano when she was Governor and has criticized Obama. Now the Justice Department goes after him in a political witch hunt. His crime? Enforcing the law and keeping crime down.
The Justice Department, following an often hostile three-year investigation, said Thursday the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) in Phoenix under the leadership of Sheriff Joseph M. Arpaio violated federal law and the Constitution in its handling of persons arrested and inmates held in its jail system.
Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez, who heads the department’s Civil Rights Division, said investigators concluded there was reasonable cause to believe that sheriff’s deputies engaged in a pattern or practice of unconstitutional conduct and violations of federal law that jeopardized the agency’s commitment to fair and effective law enforcement.
The not-unexpected decision said investigators found discriminatory policing practices including unlawful stops, detentions and arrests of Latinos; unlawful retaliation against persons exercising their First Amendment right to criticize the agency’s policies or practices, including its discriminatory treatment of Latinos; and discriminatory jail practices against Latino inmates with limited English proficiency by punishing them and denying them critical services.
Read the rest: Justice Department: Arizona Sheriff Arpaio violated federal law
This charge is bogus. He’s a Sheriff in Arizona. The state has a problem with drug runners working for the Mexican Cartels. Most of them are here illegally. So by the numbers it will be mostly Mexican/Hispanic arrested. That’s not discrimination, that’s arresting people breaking the law. If it was Russian mobsters doing the crime they would be the ones mostly arrested. Sheriff Joe is Italian American, hence he’s culturally close to Mexicans and probably has some relatives that are Hispanic, so claiming he’s targeting Hispanics because he’s prejudice is a total lie.
This case is a straw man and shows the Transnationalist attitude of the Obama Regime. This is also a personal vendetta by Janet Reno. This is just so despicable.
Tags: Janet Napolitano, Sheriff Arpaio
