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Phoenix Police Department Releases Report on Shooting Death of Zachariah Pithan

2013-05-22 21:44:53

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...

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Joe Arpaio Foe Rebecca Jimenez Leads in Guadalupe Mayoral Race (w/Update: Jimenez the Winner)

2013-05-21 20:30:35

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: -Gu...

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Phoenix Police Officer Daryl Raetz's Body Circled by Nativist Buzzards

2013-05-20 21:14:33

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 brot...

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Phoenix Cop Daryl Raetz Killed by Hit-and-Run SUV-Driving Scum (w/Update)

2013-05-19 14:41:23

***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...

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Jan Brewer: Ignorant, Irrational, Prevaricating, Self-Serving Bigot

2013-05-18 16:32:20

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 mi...

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Joe Arpaio Recall Suspends Paid Signature Gathering Campaign for Second Time

2013-05-16 22:02:34

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 sig...

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Joe Arpaio Recall: 14 Days Left, a New Dennis Gilman Video

2013-05-16 11:53:51

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 Shi...

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Joe Arpaio's Sycophant Don Shooter Wants to Give Joe $1.5M of Your Money (Update: Shooter Amendment FAILS in Senate)

2013-05-15 19:42:38

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 SHOOTE...

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Joe Arpaio's Fave Pay-triot John Philip Sousa IV Fires Back, Makes Bank Off Peddling Joe

2013-05-15 12:56:41

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 Joh...

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Russell Pearce Gets Mad Love from the Arizona Republic

2013-05-13 01:48:07

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, di...

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Joe Arpaio Recall Re-Ignites Paid Petition Effort with 22 Days to Go

2013-05-08 19:40:35

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 ...

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Bill Montgomery's Apartheid Policies Challenged by Puente's Carlos Garcia in Videotaped Confrontation

2013-05-04 16:10:38

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 Montgomer...

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Bill Montgomery Screwed Up Tom Horne Complaint, Second Judge Rules

2013-05-03 12:24:34

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 judg...

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Bill Montgomery's Victims Break: 14 Captured in Sportex Raid Plead Out Under Coercion

2013-05-02 11:43:37

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 ...

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ICE Detainee Commits Suicide, and a Not-So Modest Proposal (w/Update)

2013-04-30 21:09:45

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 Immigratio...

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Did Phoenix Police Need to Kill Zachariah Pithan?

2013-04-29 11:40:57

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 subd...

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Joe Arpaio Recall: Give Joe the Pink Slip and Help Retire Him from Office

2013-04-27 18:27:58

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...

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Bill Montgomery: Victimizer of Undocumented Workers, Turns "Victims' Rights" Advocate in DC

2013-04-25 18:50:08

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. Se...

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DPS Officer's Pursuit of DREAMer Lands Woman in Stir for Six Months (w/Update)

2013-04-24 21:50:19

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...

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Joe Arpaio Recall Claims 200,359 Valid Signatures with 38 Days and Counting

2013-04-22 16:19:37

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 gro...

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