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PHOENIX (AP) An audio recording has surfaced of an Arizona sheriff playing his refusal to cooperate in a racial profiling investigation for laughs at a fundraiser for an anti-illegal immigration group in Texas. He ridicules politicians who sought the probe and displayed contempt toward federal authorities who were and are still investigating him on two fronts.
The dismissive comments in 2009 by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio came as the U.S. Justice Department had already launched a civil rights probe of his trademark immigration patrols and the FBI already was examining abuse-of-power allegations for the sheriff's investigations of political foes.
In the September 2009 speech in Houston, Arpaio boasted that he arrested hundreds of illegal immigrants after politicians and federal investigators started to pick apart his patrols. He said he wouldn't cooperate with the inquiry, but said he would tone down the patrols if he was proven wrong.
"But I'm not. After they went after me, we arrested 500 more just for spite," the self-proclaimed "America's toughest sheriff" said, pausing for laughter and applause.
http://news.yahoo.com/ap-newsbreak-az-sheriff-played-probe-laughs-165244835.html
spanone
(135,900 posts)DiverDave
(4,887 posts)I hope he gets hard time.
But they will treat him much better then he deserves
Bastard.
CatWoman
(79,302 posts)and I'm glad to see it boomeranging back.
Jester Messiah
(4,711 posts)I hope they show him all the mercy and compassion that he's shown them over the years.