Joe Dana’s report on the ongoing federal grand jury probe of ArpaioChannel 12’s Joe Dana reported last night on the federal grand jury investigation of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Chief Deputy David Hendershott, and the MCSO, and offered some tidbits regarding the probe from confidential sources.The most intriguing of these is…
During Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s December deposition in the ongoing racial-profiling lawsuit Melendres vs. Arpaio, the sheriff revealed that he had kept a personal file on immigration-related matters, which up until then had not been turned over to the plaintiffs’ lawyers in the case.This, even though David Bodney, chief counsel for the plaintiffs,…
State Senator Russell Pearce’s police state bill, SB 1070, passed the House Military Affairs and Public Safety committee again today, after a three hour session of testimony, with state Representative Kyrsten Sinema, the Assistant House Democratic Leader, taking the lead on peppering Pearce, and others speaking for and against the bill, with…
There’s been a whiff of brimstone in the air with the rumor that state Senator Russell Pearce, the most bigoted public servant in Arizona (and that’s saying a lot), has been actively lobbying Maricopa County to become its replacement sheriff, should Arpaio run for governor, keel over, or be indicted…
Gilman’s latest on Obama’s hypocrisyYou might as well put a bounty on their heads. The undocumented, I mean. Though Barack Obama came to power dismissing as ludicrous the idea that we can “deport ’em all,” ICE’s Office of Detention and Removal Operations continues to demand just that with a quota of…
Is it a mere coincidence that state Senator Russell Pearce’s chief critic on the House Military Affairs and Public Safety Committee, Representative Daniel Patterson of Tucson, has been removed from that committee, just as Pearce’s police state legislation SB 1070 is scheduled to run through MAPS on March 31?You’ll recall…
Arpaio shrugs off his arrest of an innocent American girlIf you’re Hispanic in Maricopa County, Sheriff Joe’s goons have probable cause to arrest you on suspicion of being undocumented. Hey, they can always release you later.That’s the word from the elephant’s mouth after an MCSO raid on four area McDonald’s…
Puente activist Sandra Castro’s interview with Rev. Jesse JacksonI want to turn your attention to these two videos by Sandra Castro, an activist in Sal Reza’s Puente Movement, which is based here in Phoenix. This footage of the Rev. Jesse Jackson was taken at the big pro-immigration rally in Washington,…
About 50 protesters from groups such as Puente and the newly formed LUCHA (Living United for Change in Arizona) demonstrated against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano as she spoke at ASU Thursday night at the John P. Frank Memorial Lecture. Carrying signs that read, “Janet Stop Joe Arpaio,…
Kris Kobach, the far right-wing nativist attorney Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s hired to train the MCSO in immigration matters, is receiving $300 per hour, plus expenses, including airline tickets to and from Arizona.Though Arpaio’s Chief Deputy David Hendershott surmised in his recent deposition in the civil rights lawsuit Melendres vs. Arpaio…
With demonstrators outside the Phoenix federal courthouse clamoring for Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s head, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder today characterized the Department of Justice investigation into Arpaio’s office as “serious” and “ongoing,” and said that he expected the probe to produce “results.”The attorney general was at downtown’s Sandra Day O’Connor…
CBS 5’s Peter Busch did a segment for last night’s news on the fight to save the Career Criminal Squad, a squad of four detectives and one sergeant that goes undercover to investigate street-level hate crimes and murder-for-hire cases.I decried the impending disbandment of this squad in last week’s Bird…
Video of Mary Rose Wilcox in D.C. by videographer Dennis GilmanTelling the crowd at the big immigration rally on Sunday in Washington, D.C. that Sheriff Joe runs Maricopa County like a “police state,” county Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox urged listeners to call the U.S. Department of Justice and tell Attorney…
If you plan on heading to Mesa Community College tomorrow to protest Sheriff Joe Arpaio, you’ll have to leave your “Joe Sucks” sign at home — the fuzz isn’t allowing signs on the campus while the sheriff speaks with a group of college Republicans.Kevin Fosburgh, president of the Mesa Community…
****Please See Update Below****Will we live in state Senator Russell Pearce’s dream police state, or will we live in the United States of America?That’s the issue at hand this afternoon as Pearce’s SB 1070/HB 2632 goes to the House Committee of the Whole for debate. The bill, which would greatly expand…
Freedom’s Phoenix Web site owner and Libertarian activist Ernie Hancock is demanding that state Senator Russell Pearce be censured by the Senate Ethics Committee. This, over an e-mail Pearce sent out recently suggesting that Hancock’s advocacy against Pearce’s SB 1070/HB 2632 was “just short of a domestic terrorist act.”As I’ve…
Today, President Barack Obama buffaloed tens of thousands of activists demanding immigration reform in Washington, D.C., appearing via video on jumbo screens, and telling the masses, according to the New York Times that,”I have always pledged to be your partner as we work to fix our broken immigration system, and…
Jason Shelton (aka, “4409”) arguing against Pearce’s unconstitutional billState Senator Russell Pearce’s police state/bigot bill is under siege by the Libertarians and Ron Paul Republicans over at Ernie Hancock’s Web site Freedom’s Phoenix. As I’ve blogged previously, Hancock sent out a mass e-mail last week with a link to an article…
The soon-to-be-disbanded Career Criminal Squad of the Phoenix Police Department has scored another W: The conviction of local cigar czar Dimitri Rozenman for contracting to have the mother of his two children and members of her family murdered.The jury delivered verdicts of guilty yesterday for Rozenman’s murder-for-hire scheme, as well…
If there is one thing we learned from last night’s episode of Police Women of Maricopa County it’s that if someone steals a Playstation game from you, you apparently have the right to beat the ever-loving shit out of them.Viewers followed Deputy Lindsey Smith in last night’s show as she…
A federal judge today allowed the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office more time to sort through recovered e-mails for confidential info that doesn’t pertain to an ongoing racial-profiling lawsuit. The company that saved the recovered data has until April 11 to produce it for the lawyers on each side, says Cari…
Beware if you’ve got brown skin — Sheriff Joe Arpaio has begun another crime sweep. Maricopa County’s sheriff says he’s turning up the heat once again on illegal immigrants. His 14th such effort, according to the Associated Press, is focusing on “drop houses, drug violators and human smuggling vehicles.” If…
