Arpaio is doing what he was hired to do and that is uphold the law. That includes fighting illegal immigration. Yet when he enforces and arrests people breaking our laws, he is called a bigot and racial profiler! AMAZING! Not Rev "Yes I'm a Gigantic Bigot" Sharpton is sticking his nose where it doesn't belong. Can this guy be anymore of a media whore?
So a guy justifiably fighting illegal immigration at ground zero (the American SW) is now a criminal and people are calling for his head! Amazing!
Al Sharpton Takes on Phoenix's Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Calls For Videos Showing Racial Profiling - Political News - FOXNews.com
So a guy justifiably fighting illegal immigration at ground zero (the American SW) is now a criminal and people are calling for his head! Amazing!
Al Sharpton Takes on Phoenix's Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Calls For Videos Showing Racial Profiling - Political News - FOXNews.com
The Rev. Al Sharpton on Friday called for opponents of an Arizona sheriff who has aggressively cracked down on illegal immigration to videotape alleged racial profiling by the sheriff's office.
The civil rights leader said the videos will help the U.S. Department of Justice in an investigation of alleged civil rights abuses by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office.
"We're gonna start some freedom rides around this county, to show how people of a certain skin color are treated different than other people," Sharpton told a crowd of several hundred people at the Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church in Phoenix.
Sharpton spoke with Arpaio later Friday in a meeting that the sheriff called cordial.
Arpaio said Sharpton did not mention his freedom rides plan, but asked about racial profiling.
"I tried to educate him that we don't do it," Arpaio said.
The sheriff has taken a hard line against illegal immigration and strongly enforces Arizona's employer-sanctions law, which punishes businesses that knowingly hire illegal workers. He worked with Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas to use the state's human-smuggling law to charge illegal immigrants for conspiring to smuggle themselves into the state.
Arpaio has publicly clashed with other local law enforcement officials who said the sheriff was damaging a delicate relationship between the police and the Hispanic community.
Arpaio said he told Sharpton that he would continue his immigration enforcement despite criticism and the civil rights investigation, adding that Sharpton "may have learned that maybe with this sheriff my people aren't as bad as he may read in the newspapers or as some politicians tell him."