Judge to mull disbanding polygamous towns' police agency

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Judge to mull disbanding polygamous towns' police agency

Jacques Billeaud, Associated Press

Updated 11:12 pm, Sunday, October 23, 2016


PHOENIX (AP) — A court hearing begins Monday to explore the federal government's bid to disband the shared police department for two polygamous towns in Arizona and Utah that were found by a jury to have discriminated against nonbelievers on the basis of religion.

The four-day hearing in Phoenix will examine remedies that U.S. District Judge H. Russel Holland could order in response to the jury's finding seven months ago that nonbelievers were denied police protection, building permits and water hookups in the adjacent towns of Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah.

The civil rights case against both towns marks one of the battles that the federal government is waging to rein in the sect's activities, which prosecutors say are dictated by the commands of their jailed leader and prophet, Warren Jeffs. He is serving a life sentence in a Texas for sexually assaulting underage girls he considered wives.

Federal prosecutors also this year charged 11 group members, including several high-ranking leaders, with carrying out a multiyear, multimillion-dollar food stamp fraud scheme. The suspects have pleaded not guilty, and they are awaiting trial.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Judge-to-mull-disbanding-polygamous-towns-police-10155066.php

[Feeling the Bern]

1. I wonder if conservaturds will scream religious freedom. They do whenever gayo-Americans are

targeted. I wonder if being a polygamist is religious freedom.

On side note: Colorado City, Arizona again? Christ, that place is a fucking lunatic asylum.

[Crowman1979]

2. Seems as if these parts of the country treat every non-mormon of every race as if they were black.