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Arizonaâs Sheriff Joe Arpaio came on the Breitbart News Sunday Show on Sirius XM Patriot radio to talk about the national war on police with host Stephen K. Bannon. âAmericaâs toughest Sheriffâ started off with a bang telling Breitbartâs Executive News Chairman that, âIâm going to court tomorrow, down in Washington, suing Obama, so weâll see how that goes.â
Arpaio is suing the president, arguing that the imposed executive amnesty is unconstitutional. He is also suing Obama for ordering the release of some 4,000 criminals from his jail over the last year. He told the Daily News back in November that one of the many negative effects of the new executive order âwill be the increased release of criminal aliens back onto streets.â
The sheriff said that he believes the heightened rhetoric coming from politicians and community leaders about police brutality and racism âat least indirectlyâ caused the death of Officers Liu and Ramos on Saturday. The two NYPD officers were shot execution style by an assassin while they were eating their lunch in a patrol car.
Arpaio pointed out that police officers report to the Mayor and they need to be supported. âItâs sickening whatâs going on,â he lamented. âI was on a show in New York a couple of nights ago and at that time I said Iâm afraid some cops are gonna get killed and fourteen hours later it happened. Itâs sad for the families, sad for the NYPD, and Iâm afraid itâs going to spread across the nation.â
Bannon asked Arpaio what was it that prompted his prediction: âWas it protesters chanting in the streets for hours at a time, What do we want? Dead Cops. When do we want them? Now. And then not have Mayor De Blasio and other senior non-police officials condemn that?â
The Sheriff said, âIâll tell you what it was. About a year-and-a-half ago, I had three separate threats on me and my family⌠all of them regarded my anti-illegal immigration position.â Arpaio argued that the police authority controversy and the illegal immigrant situation are similar because they are political issues.
The media is complicit according to Arpaio. They may be covering the two slain police officers now. he points out, but, âWhere were they before? They were leaning to the demonstrators, to the politicians. Twenty four hours, and over and over and over again. And we needed someone to come out and say âHey anyone messes with our Cops and theyâre going to jail.â You didnât see that from the Mayor.â
He added, âMaybe if someone came out tough and said youâre going to jail if you mess with our cops maybe some people would get a different idea.â
Arpaio also claims that the Attorney General of the United States is also not a great supporter of the police. âI think if you are a cop supporter you wonât be investigating 19 to 20 police departments for alleged racial profiling,â he argued.
Sheriff Arpaio Predicts War on Police
The guy seems quite tough and reasonable, with great experience. Do you think his evaluation of the situation is correct? Is real war on police possible?
Yes, it has been discussed for some time now, but is it an actual possibility? Something we need to be prepared for?
I can hardly see this happening. Probably, a couple of incidents might take place, but I think that wouldnât be more than gang violence. There should be something way more serious to start a war on police.