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Eugene

(61,595 posts)
Fri May 20, 2016, 07:32 PM May 2016

Sheriff Joe Arpaio: It’s not my fault that my racial profiling program cost taxpayers $40 million

Source: Raw Story

Sheriff Joe Arpaio: It’s not my fault that my racial profiling program cost taxpayers $40 million

BETHANIA PALMA MARKUS
19 MAY 2016 AT 11:39 ET

Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio insisted he will run for a seventh term as Maricopa County sheriff, despite facing possible criminal charges after being held in contempt of court for flouting a judge’s orders, 12News reports.

Arpaio has already racked up a $40 million bill to taxpayers in his five-year court battle after being sued for — and found guilty of — racial profiling. Last week, a federal judge found Arpaio to be in contempt for violating orders. This sets the stage for criminal proceedings.

Arpaio remained defiant when interviewed by 12News, insisting that his legal troubles were not his fault, but the fault of “the government” and the plaintiffs in the civil case.

“I’m not going to get into the reasons but maybe you ought to blame the people who caused this to occur, like the government,” Arpaio told 12News. When reporter Joe Dana pressed him to explain, Arpaio said, “Well, let’s say who brought the lawsuits and why and so on. So I am not going to talk about it. It will be more clear as we progress in the judicial system right now.”

Dana wanted to know why, after costing the county millions of dollars for violating the law, Arpaio would put the people through another term as Maricopa County’s top law enforcer.

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Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/sheriff-joe-arpaio-its-not-my-fault-that-my-racial-profiling-program-cost-taxpayers-40-million/

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Sheriff Joe Arpaio: It’s not my fault that my racial profiling program cost taxpayers $40 million (Original Post) Eugene May 2016 OP
Of course not. It was Obama's. KamaAina May 2016 #1
...and he'll be relected in a landslide. Takket May 2016 #2
He's been costing taxpayers 10s of millions of dollars all along Major Nikon May 2016 #4
Has anyone tried to run against him? Initech May 2016 #5
Interesting legal defense gratuitous May 2016 #3

Major Nikon

(36,814 posts)
4. He's been costing taxpayers 10s of millions of dollars all along
Fri May 20, 2016, 08:41 PM
May 2016

People there just don't seem to care how much he costs them or how corrupt he is so long as he keeps harassing drug users and brown people.

Initech

(99,915 posts)
5. Has anyone tried to run against him?
Fri May 20, 2016, 09:17 PM
May 2016

The guy is a monster. I can't believe that there haven't been any challengers who could beat him in an election.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
3. Interesting legal defense
Fri May 20, 2016, 08:37 PM
May 2016

I wonder how Sheriff Shitbird would react to an arrestee who said that stealing a car wasn't his fault, it was the sheriff's fault for collaring him? Dumbass.

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