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mooreandrew58 posted...

like Hillary with her illegal email BS. some reps. are guilty of that too, but we don't talk about them do we? unless its a dem trying to defend her via "well they do it so whats wrong with her doing it" sorta argument

Hillary was subject to half a dozen investigations, none of which found any credible grounds for criminal charges.

What she did may have been foolish, but it was not illegal.

Smarkil posted...

I don't know that letting this dude off is a good thing, but I do know that profiling has always been a pretty sticky issue in the courts. What some people call racism, other people call good/obvious police work. Of course, I don't know the details of Arpaio's case so I can't comment on it.

Reader's digest version is this:

Arpaio made it department policy for his sheriffs to pull over and/or stop hispanics in the street and question them about their immigration status, even in cases where they were not suspected of breaking the law. If they were unable to produce immigration documents, they could be detained until able to prove they were in the country legally. He was taken to court over this and the courts came down against him, saying that it was discriminatory to target hispanics and illegal to question or detain them if they were not suspected of any crimes (comes down under unreasonable search and seizure). He was ordered to stop the practice immediately.

He publicly stated multiple times that he would not obey the judge's orders and ordered his deputies to continue the practice. After multiple warnings he was arrested and charged with contempt of court, which he was ultimately found guilty of.

Pretty open and shut case. He wasn't charged (directly) for shoddy police work, he was charged with ignoring a judge's orders - right-wing or left, that's a really bad thing to be encouraging people to do.
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