Al Sharpton calls for Arizona sheriff to step down

Reuters ^ | April 7, 2009

[Free ThinkerNY]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. civil rights activist Al Sharpton weighed into a fight over an Arizona sheriff's immigration sweeps on Tuesday, accusing him of racially profiling Hispanics and urging him to step down.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has dispatched deputies into Hispanic communities in the Phoenix area, where they stop people and arrest anyone who cannot prove he or she is a legal U.S. resident.

Under a deal allowing them to enforce federal immigration laws, the deputies have arrested more than 1,500 people who they determined were in Arizona illegally, triggering street protests and condemnation from Latino activists who accuse him of racial profiling.

"I am first calling for the resignation and or removal of Sheriff Arpaio ... harassment based on color is nothing short of racial profiling, which many of us ... helped to fight to make against the law," Sharpton told reporters.

[al baby]

To hell with Al Sharpton

[Ben Mugged]

Anyone check Al’s record on being right?

[MikeWUSAF]

What has happened to our country when people actually care about what Al Sharpton has to say?

[ZULU]

I call for “Mr.” Sharpeton to step down - from whatever he thinks he is.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

I have a better idea. YOU step down you crook!!!

[ConservativeMind]

There he goes again.

[alarm rider]

What race are Hispanics?

[gunner03]

Al Sharpton can go F888 himself. When will it end ?

[A_Former_Democrat]

Or being “color-blind”?

[Da Coyote]

Sharpton. Morals and IQ right up there with the Obamaloon.

[hugorand]

Al Sharpton wants someone fired for enforcing laws on the book? Yaaawn.

[Buddygirl]

NO WAY! The one good sheriff in America and Sharpton wants him taken down? Sharpton, go stick your head in the sand, bud! I am tired of seeing good people who are trying to keep America sane smeared!!!!

[al baby]

Figure 8 himself 3 times?

[MrB]

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has dispatched deputies into Hispanic communities in the Phoenix area, where they stop people and arrest anyone who cannot prove he or she is a legal U.S. resident.

That is a lie.

Arpaio's deputies arrest people for crimes, and if they're illegal aliens, they are held for that as well.

[Responsibility2nd]

"I am first calling for the resignation and or removal of Sheriff Arpaio ... harassment based on color is nothing short of racial profiling, which many of us ... helped to fight to make against the law," Sharpton told reporters.

Sharpton - idiot that he is - should be told that Hispanics are NOT a race. They're an ethnic group.

[buck61]

Old pay no taxes Sharpton,needs to shut the hell up!!!!

[Doogle]

another tax cheat

[Recovering Hermit]

When will it end?

Not until the likes of Al Sharpton stop wasting perfectly good air.

[ccmay]

Well, that does it for me. Arpaio was starting to grate on my nerves, and I voted for his opponent this time around, but if Al Sharpton thinks he’s no good then I think I’ll have to begin supporting him again.

[TigersEye]

Reuters. Propaganda. Did I mention that this is pure BS?

[Quix]

Over who’s . . . physique . . .

might he be stepping down over?

God have mercy.

The one sheriff in the whole country who’s awake and a patriot and brain dead traitorous idiots want him to step down.

Figures.

[oldbrowser]

U.S. civil rights activist Al Sharpton

Makes it look like he some kind of authority.

[Quix]

I think he has a cell reserved there.

[ontap]

I’m sure sheriff Joe will take this under consideration.

[trtdenver]

I’m calling on Al Sharpton, Race Profiteer, to step down.

[al baby]

[geege]

Another reason to throw a cocktail party when this scum bucket crokes.

[wac3rd]

I guess those same people have no problem being “profiled” when applying to college, getting a job or getting promoted.

Sharpton was absent at the Oakland PD funeral, I wonder why?

Maggot.

[reagan_fanatic]

[ronnyquest]

I’d consider blindly opposing Al Sharpton on any issue.

[peace with honor]

FUC* AL SHARPTON

[surely_you_jest]

Apparently Sharpton did this in a presser he conducted in New York. Interesting that he doesn't have the cajones to go down to Arizona to stir up his crap.

[pissant]

And I call for Sheriff Joe to pistol whip the racist POS Sharpton.

[Cyber Liberty]

Hey, Al...pay the cops you slandered.

[Truth29]

Too bad Arpaio can’t arrest Sharpton.

[infowarrior]

Sharpton was absent at the Oakland PD funeral, I wonder why?

We both know *why*...

the infowarrior

[B Knotts]

Sheriff Joe and/or the MCSO should sue Reuters for libel over this story. Seriously.

[Morgana]

If only Al would be arrested by Joe!!!!!!!!!

[VR-21]

It grates on me how Tawana Brawley seldom gets brought up when Reverend Bacon gets discussed. And forget about Freddys Fashion Mart. Sharptons own record with regard to bigotry is of course beyond reproach.

[donna]

The Democrats are having hearings on Capital Hill in Washington D.C. against Maricopa County Sheriff Arapio:

MCSO: No complaints about Arpaio from NAACP
Reported by: Gary Sarnoff
4/03/09 8:44 pm

Sheriff Joe Arpaio, The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Friday said the local NAACP president has refused to testify against Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

An MCSO press release said Congressman John Conyer’s office contacted the president of the local chapter of the NAACP in an attempt to get the African-American group to bolster the congressman’s portrayal of Sheriff Arpaio and his deputies as “racial profilers” during hearings on Capital Hill in Washington D.C.
MCSO said the attempt was unsuccessful however, as the NAACP head had no complaints about the Sheriff’s Office or local law enforcement about racial profiling. So representatives from the NAACP were not invited to testify at the hearings. (snip)

http://www.abc15.com/content/news/phoenixmetro/central/story/MCSO-No-complaints-about-Arpaio-from-NAACP/OdOD_fRCSUW_bIHRrOBJMQ.cspx

[wolfcreek]

Yeah, he'd look real cute in a pink jumpsuit with a green bologna sandwich hanging from his lips.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

I’m sure Joe will carefully consider the Reverend Al’s opinion for all that it’s worth in Maricopa County.

[swain_forkbeard]

What an outrage. Using profiles to find illegal border-crossers around our southern border with Mexico. Just imagine.

It’s laughable, so why am I not laughing?

[spaced]

“What race are Hispanics?”

Caucasian, by definition. The dictionary defines hispanic as being descended from the inhabitants of the Iberian peninsula - i.e. Spain and Portugal.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Al Sharpton is a racist...where are the hearings about his abuses?

[MikeWUSAF]

Al should be busy talking to the NCAA about last night’s championship game.

I heard one of the Michigan’s black players yell “n” to a fellow teammate when each of them were being introduced.

Of course he was using it as a term of endearment however I was offended...

[patriot08]

The sheriff is on Cavuto talking about it right now!

[Fast Moving Angel]

Someone should tell La Raza the same thing.

[nufsed]

I call for Al Sharpton to get a job.