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Is Trump's pardon of Arpaoi a presidential endorsement of racism and contempt of the law and the constitution ?

“With his pardon of Arpaio, Trump has chosen lawlessness over justice, division over unity, hurt over healing,” ACLU Deputy Legal Director Cecillia Wang said in a statement. “Once again, the president has acted in support of illegal, failed immigration enforcement practices that target people of color and have been struck down by the courts. His pardon of Arpaio is a presidential endorsement of racism.”
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Burnley123 · 41-45, M
I have read up about this guy. It's not just that he did racial profiling but showed contempt for the law. He's intimidated journalists and once hired a private investigator to trail the wife of the judge who sentenced him. It shows you what kind of approach Trump values and also his lack of respect for democratic institutions. This is presumably what Trump would want nationwide. Trumpism is creeping Fascism.
nudistsueaz · 61-69, F
@Burnley123 Then there no issues, as long as you believe everything you read. We live here and know the truth and how each event happened.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@nudistsueaz Okaaaaay... so what part of my post do you know didn't happen?
nudistsueaz · 61-69, F
@Burnley123 Understood every word. If you read it, it has to be true. Most here just aren't kool-aid drinkers but I am aware some are.
nudistsueaz · 61-69, F
Manuel de Jesus Ortega Malendas, who filed the 2007 class action suit against Arpaio, is troubled by Trump's purported abuse of the pardon, but apparently felt no problem with agreeing with Obummer's ignoring the law for eight years
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@nudistsueaz TBH your line of argument is a bit pathetic.

You can't point to a specific thing I have got wrong but imply I believe everything I read, which I don't. If something comes from multiple credible sources, the man is charged and even convicted by the legal process then I have drunk kool-aid to believe what I read?

On a comment below you say he should not have been charged but the man has massively overreached his power throughout his career and was lucky not to be charged before on multiple times He is a criminal. Here are the case details for the crime he was convicted of:

[quote]In his September 2009 deposition in the case, Arpaio testified he had never read the complaint in the case, was unfamiliar with the details of the allegations of racial profiling therein, didn't know the content of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and had never read the Department of Justice's guidelines concerning the use of race in investigations, which would have applied to his deputies in the field when they were still operating under a 287(g) program agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He insisted, however, that his deputies didn't profile based on ethnicity or race.

In a December 2011 order, Judge Snow sanctioned Arpaio and the MCSO for acknowledged destruction of records in the case.[148][149][150] Judge Snow also stated:
"Sheriff Arpaio has made public statements that a fact finder could interpret as endorsing racial profiling, such as stating that, even lacking 287(g) authority, his officers can detain people based upon 'their speech, what they look like, if they look like they came from another country'... Moreover, he acknowledges that MCSO provides no training to reduce the risk of racial profiling, stating 'if we do not racial profile, why would I do a training program?'"[139] Judge Snow expanded the complaint into a class-action lawsuit, including all Latino drivers stopped by the Sheriff's Office since 2007, or who will be stopped in the future. He also enjoined the MCSO and all of its officers from "detaining any person based only on knowledge or reasonable belief, without more, that the person is unlawfully present within the United States, because as a matter of law such knowledge does not amount to a reasonable belief that the person either violated or conspired to violate the Arizona human smuggling statute, or any other state or federal criminal law." [/quote]

Though maybe I am reading that wrong, how so?
windinhishair · 61-69, M
@Burnley123 You've got your information correct. Arpaio has long operated outside of the law in Maricopa County. Prisoners in unusual numbers have died in his jails and he has routinely abused his latino prisoners. He has taken great pride in violating the law, so he deserved his contempt conviction. But the abuses he's guilty of are the same that Trump admires, and it is no surprise that Trump has pardoned him.
nudistsueaz · 61-69, F
It wasn't racial profiling, that why you are wrong. They did DUI checks on every car. Not on just Latino's.
@nudistsueaz there's a lot more to arpaio than "profiling".