Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has been a rolling human rights disaster for years. It needs to be torn the fuck down.
Frankly sheriff’s offices in general need to be abolished. It’s a relic of the frontier colonial era and, surprise, they never gave up their power willingly. They often have the lowest training standards in the profession, and are the face of partisan politics in law enforcement, to the benefit of conservatives 99% of the time. A lot of the time I hear about some flagrant abuse of power from cops it’s from a sheriff’s deputy.
EDIT: doesn’t seem like the sheriffs were involved here, just the county prosecutor and Phoenix police. What you get from scrolling at work and not reading articles.
The sheriff’s office has managed to keep itself out of the news since Arpaio was defeated.
Doesn’t mean you’re wrong though. Your comment is still very relevant.
On one hand I like how the sheriff’s office decentralizes police power and gives the community a direct say. In the other hand that’s been a disaster
They often have the lowest training standards in the profession
Law enforcement isn’t a “profession.” Practitioners of real “professions,” such as medicine, law, and engineering, have “professed an oath” (that’s where the word comes from) to act in the public interest (i.e. to protect the public) and abide by a code of ethics. That includes things like acting against their own interests and refusing orders from people with power over them, if necessary. In contrast, the courts have ruled in Warren v. District of Columbia that law enforcement officers explicitly have no such obligation.
So if I call Trump a slur in AZ, stab him, and run off that’s cool, right?
No. Because he is wealthy.
But if you say Donald was gay, maybe?
Times are going to get very hard for gay people soon. If history keeps rhyming the way it is, gay people have a tough road coming up and we need to be prepared for it.
just in case anyone thinks this is just about it being designated as a hate crime. No they did not charge anything despite this guy having massive injuries and the other guy having nothing to show for it. If you luigi, do it in arizona with no cameras:
But the county attorney’s office ultimately viewed the case as a “he said, he said” scenario, with Lawton claiming he acted in self-defense. According to the police report, Lawton told investigators that while slowing down the vehicle, he was “punched in the back of the head and on the side of his body so many times that he saw stars.”
No witnesses corroborated Lawton’s account, and it’s unclear how much the county attorney’s office leaned on his story. But without video footage of the attack—Uber allows drivers to install them but does not require it—the evidence collected would appear to focus heavily only on eye witnesses.
“I don’t understand how it could be deemed self-defense or why it was turned down,” Almaraz said. “I was unarmed, he had multiple weapons in the car—it just didn’t make any sense. It was heartbreaking. I was completely assaulted and violated. I could have lost my life.”
It should be noted that AZ self defense law requires you to use the same type of weapon as your attacker. For instance, if you shot someone attacking you with a bat, it would likely not be self defense.
It has been broadened recently since it used to require exactly the same weapon, so if someone was attacking you with an uzi, you couldn’t defend yourself with your shotgun. However I’m fairly certain it still won’t let you stab someone trying to fistfight you.
“punched in the back of the head and on the side of his body so many times that he saw stars.”
Surely there would be bruises or medical records if this were the case.
with Lawton claiming he acted in self-defense.
Ah, the gay panic defense.
Now not just for cops!
Project Fucking 2025!
“The man should be given honors for doing the reich the favor of disposing of the untermensch, even if it did fail.”
Wait wait wait, you said it was a gay man that was stabbed? Sorry, my hands are tied. Playbook says gay guys can’t get stabbed.
The body has a way of shutting that whole thing down.
He probably asked the knife to penetrate him, it’s what the gays do, you know. - Detective Brownbeater
It’s illegal for gay people to be stabbed why did he do that?
Unfortunately relevant Desaparecidos song
Red states are becoming very scary places
Sherman should’ve executed all slaveowners.
You won’t hear me argue against that.
Because there is no law in Arizona.
The Rule of Law is dead in America.
i’m so glad i left that shithole
it is mostly a desert, where cities shouldnt EXIST anyways.
the phoenix metro area is; not so much the rest of arizona
Joe Arpaio’s old county. They’re keeping the traditions alive, I see.
Was… Knifed?
Get strapped, the law isn’t going to protect us and seems to be used to harass us
Armed minorities are harder to oppress.
Organized armed minorities make governments afraid.
Make no mistake, this is yet another message, “we do not care about you or your struggles”. Listen when they tell you they won’t protect you.
thats probably the reason why they were so afraid of the civil rights movement, especially with communism so fresh people might want to illict help from soviets.
Sounds like we need the Pink Panthers
Armed and gritty inspector Clouseau isn’t the worst idea for a reboot. Maybe because there’s been so many terrible reboots of other franchises.
Pink pistols?
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
Rules for thee, but not for me
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Dude… he was fucking stabbed? That is assault with a deadly weapon and/or attempted murder/manslaughter at least.
Yes, but look at what they where wearing… Also that baby was being kinda a dick.
