Many are unaware of the 'sweeps' that occurred prior to Arpaio and his infamous Hispanic roundups? He is more commonly known to violate Hispanic Citizen Civil Rights-in modern times (or nowadays), every time he conducts his targeting of Hispanics. The crime of being ..'guilty of being brown'... is very prevalent -as his Dept. and Posse members continue to detain US Citizens who are of Hispanic descent.
The MCSO's pending Civil Rights lawsuits continue to mount....as....Maricopa County and its taxpayers are- 'left on the hook' for his continued -lawless and rampant disregard for Civil Rights....Though that blog subject is left for another day.
In this case; the City of Chandler decided to conduct a similar style 'sweep'. Well before the 287g authority had been considered or afforded to the Cities Law Enforcement agencies.... and.... of course well before Arpaio decided to become the media hound of modern times for the same thing.
287g, grants authority to local Police and Sheriff's Depts., to ask an individual about their immigration status..
Chandler, in this case-- took it on its own merit in 1997 to round up all Hispanics it came across.. This was unprecedented, and no other Arizona city had attempted this previously?
What it came across was, as its findings became public -were that in many instances, Police were rounding up US Citizens, who were guilty of nothing more than ...'being brown'...? In this case they either lived in Chandler, or were shopping, conducting business, or were simply passing through the City to get to another destination?
Remember there was no crime committed by this very large Mexican/American ethic minority, just the fact they were Hispanic.
What the City of Chandler came to realize in the aftermath of the roundups? Was that they knew that they committed gross negligence on their part --to have allowed and to have condoned this behavior to have occurred within City boundaries?
Subsequently, the city was sued for an estimated 35 million for violating these Hispanic Citizens Civil Rights.
The victims of the roundups, were awarded large payouts. These payouts came courtesy of the Class Action Lawsuit brought to the city, by prominent Civil Rights Attorney Stephen Montoya, and theACLU. The tab to pay the award came courtesy of the taxpayers, and very bigoted agendas put forth by the City of Chandlers leaders, at the time..
This is a reminder to those who run the City now, as they have opposed this agenda/stance since their Lawsuit judgment/settlement was imposed on them. In other words, they publicly oppose any type of 'roundup' style of law enforcement -to occur within their jurisdiction.
High price to pay, for bad decisions made previously by the City of Chandler..
It is an eniterly different story in the case of Maricopa County. Here it is still ok for this behavior to continue and cost the taxpayers... As the supporters of this bigoted agenda, are ok with wasting taxpayer dollars to continue to target Hispanic Citizens, and payout their subsequent lawsuits............... Arizona's New Hate Movement at its finest..as mentioned --it will be left for another blog..
Part-8 of this series, will focus on the powers of 287g granted to law enforcement officers and those who abuse this authority. Wecome the Ground Zero for Hate..
Regards,
Truth
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