A judge presiding over a racial profiling case against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaios office has scheduled a Tuesday hearing to discuss the agencys investigations of a former officer suspected of shaking down immigrants. Former Deputy Ramon Charley Armendariz was arrested in May after investigators found items belonging to others and bags of evidence at his home. Armendariz implicated former colleagues on Arpaios immigrant smuggling squad, quit his job and later committed suicide. U.S. District Judge Murray Snow also is set to discuss Arpaios recent unapologetic comments about a 2008 immigration patrol in the town of Guadalupe that were criticized in the profiling case. Armendariz is relevant to the profiling case because he was a witness at the cases 2012 trial and videos of his traffic stops were discovered after his arrest. Asked to comment about an upcoming community meeting in Guadalupe, Arpaio told The Associated Press he had no regrets about the patrol. With the same circumstances, Id do it all over again, Arpaio had said. Snow has questioned whether Arpaio, in making such comments about patrols that the judge found to be unconstitutional, is undermining efforts to train his deputies in how to make constitutional traffic stops. therepublic/view/story/f2084f8259c34a9794409986fa5e042c/AZ--Arizona-Sheriff-Racial-Profiling
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 20:12:01 +0000
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