Federal authorities have said they plan to sue Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio and his office over allegations of civil rights violations, including the racial profiling of Latinos.
The U.S. Justice Department has been seeking an agreement requiring Arpaio’s office to train officers in how to make constitutional traffic stops, collect data on people arrested in traffic stops and reach out to Latinos to assure them that the department is there to also protect them.
Arpaio has denied the racial profiling allegations and has claimed that allowing a court monitor would mean that every policy decision would have to be cleared through an observer and would nullify his authority.
DOJ officials told a lawyer for Arpaio on April 3 that the lawman’s refusal of a court-appointed monitor was a deal-breaker that would end settlement negotiations and result in a federal lawsuit.
The “notice of intent to file civil action” came Wednesday from Assistant U.S. Attorney General Thomas Perez in a letter to an Arpaio lawyer.
Read More at OfficialWire. By Walter Berry.
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This has nothing to do with illegals, it's pay back for investigating obama.
So true,The Boon President is poed that Sheriff Joe didn't fall in line with his edicts.
For daring to question him in anything he does, is what this is all about.
What would you expect Amos and Andy(Obuma&Holder) to do but pick some hispic named Perez to go after a great American hero.Sheriff Joe has done what was right for Arizona and the country.I hope he sticks it up their black asses.Arizona should be proud to have a man like Joe Araio, I wish South Carolina had a lawman like that instead of the wimps we have.As far as I'm concerned profiling them is one way of catching these law breakers.
Bring it on obummer
LOL…Mr. Obama has refused to step foot in the court rooms across the country in regard to his citizenship papers, saying he is too busy being the President. But now he has time to sign papers to sue the man who proved he is not an American Citizen! Wow…I hope he gets assigned a good judge! This will be fun to watch if Obama arrives in the courtroom. Maybe we will get lucky and Obama will be countersued and win a pair of pink handcuffs!