Arpaio, AZ Sheriff, To Pay $200,000 In Racial Profiling Case

Joe Arpaio, Arizona Sheriff, To Pay $200,000 In Racial Profiling Case

PHOENIX (AP) -- The office of an Arizona sheriff known for his efforts against undocumented immigrants has settled a claim with two men and will pay $200,000 in a racial profiling case.

The claim arose from one of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's (ar-PY'-oh) worksite enforcement raids.

Deputies raided a landscaping company in search of identity-theft and fraud suspects Feb. 11, 2009. They stopped Julian and Julio Mora's pickup truck outside the business.

A federal judge later determined the deputies had no reason to stop the men or detain them for nearly three hours.

Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona tell The Arizona Republic the settlement should send a message to police agencies that engage in discriminatory practices.

Sheriff's office attorney Tim Casey says officials couldn't identify the deputies who made the stop, which made it impossible to defend the merits of the stop.

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Wow... Looks like he'd better come up with a better strategy than arresting people for "DWH"... Driving-While-Hispanic.

So if you profile people based on skin color, that is wrong, and they shouldn't be pulled over. Unless they are the right color or have the right surname, and then you are allowed to award them scholarships for no other reason than color? Seems to be a contradiction.

I wasn't aware that Arpaio was in the business of awarding scholarships... Source please?

Never a straight answer from LJ. And it is sad how illegal immigrants are controlling our courts now. PC is going to ruin this country. And bleeding heart blinded libs like LJ are leading the way!

The Viking wrote: Never a straight answer from LJ. And it is sad how illegal immigrants are controlling our courts now. PC is going to ruin this country. And bleeding heart blinded libs like LJ are leading the way!

How are illegal immigrants controlling our courts?

There's no "straight answer" for something that was clearly sarcasm... If he has proof that Arpiao is giving away scholarships, though, I'd like to see it...

Sheriff's deputies arrested 60 employees during the raid on the business, out of 109 employees at the site, on suspicion of a variety of crimes, ranging from fraud and identity theft to immigration violations.

The Sheriff's Office could not identify the deputies who stopped the Moras because of the large number of deputies working the operation, which made it impossible to defend the merits of the stop, said Tim Casey, an attorney for the Sheriff's Office.

"If you can't have the officers, it's an uphill climb," Casey said.

"The Sheriff's Office has made some good, positive changes, so when they have 100 deputies doing operations, they're going to record things better so this doesn't happen again."

Read the rest of the story here on azcentral.com

60 out of 109 employees were illegal. Seems to me the SO had reasonable cause to suspect these 2 were also illegal. Of course that $200K comes from the good people of Maricopa County, the same people who keep electing the Sheriff.

Funny thing about "probable cause".... "Driving while Hispanic" doesn't satisfy the definition of it.