Joe Arpaio Loses Again: Maricopa County Settles for $200K in Mora Racial-Profiling Case

[kpete]

Source: Phoenix New Times

Joe Arpaio Loses Again: Maricopa County Settles for $200K in Mora Racial-Profiling Case
By Stephen Lemons Thu., Jul. 7 2011 at 4:03 PM

As Sheriff Joe Arpaio plots to humiliate Arizona by deploying a chain gang of illegal immigrants to clean up around Chase Field, where the Major League Baseball All-Star Game is scheduled to take place July 12, there's ample evidence Arpaio should be in stripes right along with them, cleaning the sidewalks of cigarette butts and soda cans.

Not only is Arpaio the subject of a federal grand jury probe looking into abuse of power allegations against his office, he's also guilty of racial profiling by proxy. And for all of you nativists out there, racial profiling is illegal, no matter how much you may cotton to the idea.

See, the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona has just announced that it's reached a settlement in the federal lawsuit Mora v. Arpaio, one of the most egregious cases of ethnic and racial profiling to come out of Arpaio's campaign of Hispanic-hunting sweeps and anti-immigrant raids on local businesses.

Arpaio's lawyer Tim Casey today threw in the towel, essentially agreeing to a $200,000 payout to Julian and Julio Mora, the father and son zip-tied and held for three hours during a 2009 MCSO raid of the Phoenix landscaping firm Handyman Maintenance Inc., where the elder Mora worked.


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[Dawson Leery]

2. And may he continue his losses.

Since the voters of Maricopa Countystan decide to keep this thug in power, they should pay for his misdeeds.

[rocktivity]

3. Things haven't been going well for AZ lately, have they

And most of it happened after Sarah Palin moved there...

:think:
rocktivity

[nyy1998]

8. Haha, why isn't John McCain accusing her of causing these catastrphies?

:eyes:

[ShockediSay]

9. Can't someone (MSM?) explain to Arizona that record weather

conditions that result in record fires and dust storms

are the result of climate change?

[Kali]

11. climate change contributes but that isn't the sole cause of those events

[larwdem]

4. I hope

I hope the fucking county goes bankrupt

[RZM]

5. Delete n/t

[larwdem]

6. Hay

I sad county not country

[RZM]

7. Haha. That makes more sense. Sorry I misread the post n/t

[Kali]

10. good

god he is an asshole - in a swirling shitstorm of assholes up there