Federal Judge Finds Arpaio In Contempt Of Court On Racial Profiling Order

FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013, file photo, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio pauses as he answers a question at a news conference at Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Headquarters in Phoenix. Officials of A... FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013, file photo, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio pauses as he answers a question at a news conference at Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Headquarters in Phoenix. Officials of Arizona's most populous county have agreed to pay more than $7 million to settle lawsuits by a former county official and two newspaper executives that accused Arpaio of abusing his powers. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File) MORE LESS
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A federal judge ruled Friday that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was in civil contempt of federal court on three counts, AZ Central reported.

U.S. District Judge Murray Snow found that Arpaio and three of his top aides violated a federal order intended to stop racial profiling in his jurisdiction, according to the newspaper.

“The hearings were based on three alleged violations: that the Sheriff’s Office failed to turn over video evidence that was required before the racial-profiling trial; that officials continued to enforce immigration law after Snow barred the practice; and that Chief Deputy Jerry Sheridan failed to quietly collect evidence after the trial, as Snow had ordered him to do,” according to AZ Central.

Arpaio and Sheridan maintain that the failures occurred but denied that they intentionally violated the law.

According to AZ Central, the ruling makes Arpaio and his aides vulnerable to an array of sanctions.

The outspoken sheriff has been caught up in this case since 2013, when Snow first ruled that Arpaio and his officers systematically singled out Latinos during its immigration patrols.

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  1. “Arpaio and his aides vulnerable to an array of sanctions.”

    It’s a beginning, but how much longer to rid the system of obvious sociopaths?

  2. Five years of wearing pink underwear and eating spoiled bologna sandwiches in a desert tent!

  3. “Arpaio and his officers systematically singled out Latinos…”

    And the odds-on favorite for Trump’s running mate suddenly becomes clear.

  4. It’ll never happen

  5. Here we have one of the Bundy bunch’s criminal relatives, seems to me. These guys just plain cannot follow the law, even the sheriff. I hope he finds home next door to all of the Bundy’s, not get out for a long time, and is assessed a big fine. He deserves the worst. I enjoy reading about the Bundys et. al. and Arpaio when they are smacked in the face with the karma they deserve, finally. Doesn’t happen often enough or quickly enough to make me happy but better than nothing. I hope the feds will make examples of all of them. We need them in prison to deter of other such criminals like this bunch (good luck with that - stupid is hard to cure).

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