The Phoenix Police Department released a report Wednesday on the shooting death of 22 year-old Zachariah Pithan by a Phoenix Police Officer on April 20, an incident the report characterizes as “justifiable homicide.” See also: -Did Phoenix Police Need to Kill Zachariah Pithan? According to the report, four officers were…
Please see update below. Former Guadalupe Mayor Rebecca Jimenez’s camp is partying tonight, celebrating what they believe may be a win over incumbent town Mayor Yolanda Solarez. See also: -Guadalupe made it clear that Joe Arpaio’s attacking anyone with brown skin -Joe Arpaio’s Nemesis Rebecca Jimenez, Guadalupe’s Once and Perhaps…
The nativists are a parasitic lot. They gloat when someone is murdered by an “illegal immigrant,” or any kind of immigrant, actually. In the Boston bombings, they made a feast of the two brothers, the alleged terrorists: one a naturalized U.S. citizen, the other granted asylum. Suddenly, the brothers Tsarnaev…
***Please see update below.*** There should be a special ring of Hell devoted to hit-and-run drivers, if there isn’t already. Not to mention that it must take a special kind of SOB to hit a cop and keep rolling. Authorities currently are looking for the driver of a dark gray…
They don’t call her “GED Jan” for nothin’. Following U.S. District Court Judge David Campbell’s ruling this week in Arizona Dream Act Coalition v. Jan Brewer, Brewer was quick to gloat and mischaracterize Campbell’s decision, painting it as a vindication of her prejudiced policy. See also: -Jan Brewer’s Bigoted Policy…
The roller-coaster campaign to recall Sheriff Joe Arpaio took another dive today. With just two weeks left before the recall’s May 30 deadline, the on-again, off-again paid effort to gather signatures is off again. See also: -Joe Arpaio Recall: 14 Days Left, a New Dennis Gilman Video -Joe Arpaio Recall…
Citizens for a Better Arizona president Randy Parraz makes two very important points in this new video from Dennis Gilman. The first has to do with what is possible. See also: -Joe Arpaio Shill Chad Willems’ Bogus Pro-Joe “Petition” (w/Update) -Joe Arpaio’s Chad Willems Talks to the Shadow Army about…
It wouldn’t be a John McCain town hall without occasional off-color humor. “There was a poll, a poll that had to do with favorability,” the 76-year-old U.S. senator tells the crowd of about 300 in Oro Valley, a mostly white enclave just north of Tucson. “Members of Congress ranked in…
Note: Please see update below. Think Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s been doin’ a bang-up job lately, and not just on that broken arm of his? See also: -Don’t Tread On Me, I’m DON SHOOTER!: Senator Allegedly Assaults Teacher I mean, we hardly see “America’s toughest sheriff” these days after…
Nativist Nimrod and birther nutbar John Philip Sousa IV slays me with his whole, “Guess who my great-grandpappy was?” song and dance, which he uses to sell his lame book about the original John Philip Sousa, shill for racist organizations like the Federation for American Immigration Reform, and pimp for…
The Arizona Republic’s editorial board must be patting themselves on the back right now. Why, they scored an editorial on the Gang of Eight’s immigration bill from none other than recalled, disgraced two-time loser Russell Pearce, Sand Land’s high satrap of hate. See also: -Russell Pearce, Ol’ Buds with Killer…
With 22 days remaining, the effort to boot Sheriff Joe Arpaio from office has re-started the paid petition-gathering campaign it discontinued back on March 18. See also: -Joe Arpaio Fans Look a Little Desperate With Billboards Urging People Not to Sign Recall -Joe Arpaio Recall: Give Joe the Pink Slip…
Monty’s head nearly explodes as he’s challenged by Carlos Garcia of Puente Kudos to Carlos Garcia and his fellow activists at Puente for again confronting Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery on his policy of overcharging undocumented workers so as to make them ineligible for bail, coercing a guilty plea that…
I’m beginning to think Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery should enroll in some remedial law classes. That’s because now a superior court judge has agreed with an administrative law judge that Montgomery’s office messed up the campaign finance case against Attorney General Tom Horne and his outreach director Kathleen Winn…
Bill Montgomery’s victims speak… Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery must feel really proud of himself. After more than three months in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s dirty, dangerous and sometimes deadly jails, 14 of the 23 undocumented workers being prosecuted in the MCSO’s February 8 raid of Sportex Apparel cut plea deals…
Watch A clip from The Undocumented on PBS. See more from Independent Lens. Please see update below. I have very little to go on with the press release below from U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement concerning the “apparent suicide” at the Eloy Detention Center by a 24 year-old Guatemalan woman…
During the uproar over the 2010 shooting death of South Phoenix resident Danny Rodriguez by former Phoenix Police Officer Richard Chrisman, I often wondered why two Phoenix cops could not subdue one unarmed man without resorting to lethal force. See also: -Richard Chrisman Report Released by Phoenix Police Department: Read…
I’ve been thinking about sending Sheriff Joe Arpaio a note expressing my deep concern for his health, and suggesting that he resign before the MCSO ends up being Phoenix’s version of Weekend at Bernie’s, with Joe in the starring role. See also: -Joe Arpaio Recall Claims 200,359 Valid Signatures with…
It’s a requirement in Arizona, more than in any other state in the Union, that politicians be shameless hypocrites. And Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery is no piker in this regard. See also: -DPS Officer’s Pursuit of DREAMer Lands Woman in Stir for Six Months -Bill Montgomery’s Deaf Victim Diana…
If you need an illustration of Arizona’s diseased “attrition through enforcement” mentality, look no further than the case of Solaguahire Zenil, a local DREAMer, who is currently in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. See also: -The MCAO Follows ICE’s Blueprint for Separating Immigrant Families According to her…
Respect Arizona, the group attempting to recall Sheriff Joe Arpaio from office, may yet prove the naysayers wrong. At a press conference Monday in downtown Phoenix, about 20 members of the group gathered to announce that, so far, they have collected 200,359 valid signatures to recall Sheriff Joe. See also:…
I’m heartened to see local Democrats unabashedly supporting the effort to recall Sheriff Joe Arpaio, which is spearheaded by Respect Arizona, and assisted by Citizens for a Better Arizona, headed by everyone’s favorite kick-ass activist Randy Parraz. See also: -Joe Arpaio Recall Boasts 169,283 Valid Signatures, 166,034 More Needed by…
