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Since our earlier post about Deputy Louie Puroll’s getting placed on administrative leave, the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office has given us a statement from Sheriff Paul Babeu, plus specifics on why Puroll’s under investigation.Puroll’s been placed on paid administrative leave while the office’s Internal Affairs unit investigates comments he made to New…

The fun comes about 53 seconds in The lefty blog Political Correction is pimping this video of Arizona Congressman Trent “Hoof-in-Gob” Franks on the House floor warning the American public of the “ideological commitment of this administration to weaken America.” Thing is, as dumb as that statement may be, it’s…

Something about an article in last week’s New Times has landed Pinal County Sheriff’s Deputy Louie Puroll in some hot water — he’s been placed on administrative leave, and the PCSO confirms to New Times it has something to do with our story.In the article, Whitewash, Puroll told New Times…

Yesterday, we told you about two of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s detention officers facing aggravated assault charges for allegedly roughing up two inmates. If you missed it, click here.Arpaio showed video of the assaults at a press conference yesterday afternoon — they’re pretty wild.We wouldn’t want to deprive you…

Pearce regurgitates a nativist whopper on the “original intent” of the 14th Amendment during an October presser Of all the grotesque lies spewed by the nativist right in its effort to undo birthright citizenship as guaranteed by the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the most odious is the canard that…

Two of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s detention officers face aggravated assault charges after allegedly roughing up two inmates in the psych ward at the Lower Buckeye Jail.Arpaio actually allowed us (New Times!) to join in watching the video of the alleged assaults this afternoon — one of which was so egregious…

Damn, I love James Garcia. The Phoenix playwright seems hell-bent on fulfilling my fantasies in his annual American Pastorela productions. Last year, the villain was Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who keels over of a heart attack, and is later tortured in Hades by Adolf Hitler. Being an atheist, I can’t see this…

Two Maricopa County sheriff’s deputies were arrested today for allegedly assaulting two jail inmates.The deputies each have been charged with aggravated assault…

In the light of day, while they’re being watched, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents ain’t so tough.The above video with footage by Bill Pierce and editing by Dennis Gilman documents a November 19 demonstration outside the Phoenix offices of ICE by undocumented Arizona DREAM Act students.It begins with a segment snipped…

Pearce’s Obama-jihad-impeachment quote begins 4:09 in For me, neo-Nazi-hugging state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce is the gift that keeps on giving. Seems like there’s not a week that goes by where he doesn’t say or do something totally whack, thus allowing me to pull out the verbal cat-o-nine tails and flay away at…

As Bill Montgomery was sworn in yesterday as Maricopa County Attorney, Sheriff Joe Arpaio sat glowering, Nixon-like, from the front row of the Board of Supervisors auditorium.After the ceremony, I asked Arpaio of he was checking on his investment. You know, his half-million dollars in TV ads and mailers bashing…

As if you need more proof that Arizona is the “state of hate,” look no further than the FBI’s recently released hate crime report. From 2008 to 2009, Arizona’s number of reported hate crimes increased by more than 18.3 percent. This is up over the year prior, 2007 to 2008,…

The Phoenix Police Department report on the October 5 shooting of Daniel Rodriguez by Officer Richard Chrisman was released today. And there’s plenty in it for both sides in this tragedy to make hay out of. Several officers relate that Chrisman, who has since been indicted on a second degree murder charge…

Sheriff Joe Arpaio supports medicinal use of the good ganja? Well, at least that’s what the former DEA agent did during this clip from the 2007 documentary American Drug War: The Last White Hope. In it, Arpaio was asked his opinion on medical marijuana, as he stands in Tent City, surrounded by prisoners…

Randy Pullen, chairman of the Arizona Republican Party, has announced via Twitter that he will not seek reelection at the next state party meeting on January 22. This follows the news that Pullen had not been elected a state committeeman from Legislative District 11. Normally, someone would have to be a state…

Galindo asks Joe why he always goes after the employees, instead of the employersI’ll concede that radio host Carlos Galindo is a controversial figure. The Latino activist community shuns him. And he’s been blasted for being anti-Semitic, due to a blog posting he made in the past, where he reportedly…

Gilman attacks the Nazis, the Phoenix PD, and J.T. Ready in this video of the warfare on November 13Phoenix’s Michael Moore, videographer Dennis Gilman, braved rocks and industrial-strength pepper spray to bring us his latest video depicting yet another day in state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce’s Arizona.At what point do…

Schultz rips Pearce for his crazy talk on Brahm Resnik’s Sunday Square-OffJust another reminder of what the local Republinuts — led by neo-Nazi-huggin’ state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce — have in mind for you one million-plus folks down on your luck, or those about to be in this economy: No…

Phoenix-area anarchists earned the right to wear their Zapatista-like bandannas Saturday in a full-on street battle at 8th Avenue and Jefferson, with anarchists and assorted counter-demonstrators on one side, and the Phoenix Police Department and a contingent of neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement members on the other.Although I cannot condone the…

When I first began reporting on immigration and Sand Land politics several years ago, I was under the mistaken impression — because I’d never lived in an area so heavily influenced by the LDS before — that most Mormons were like neo-Nazi-hugging state Senator Russell Pearce. Very quickly, I learned…

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio isn’t up for re-election for two, long years, but that isn’t stopping him from trying to drum up cash to pay his legal bills for his campaign right now — and he’s turning to out-of-state donors to do it.This morning, we received a letter sent…

I agree with Espresso Pundit’s Greg Patterson about as often as I agree with state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce, which is, almost never. But he exposed an ugly little problem with the Arizona Democrats recently that I’ve seen get zero play on liberal blogs, so I think it’s worth mentioning here,…