Deputies of sheriff with record of ethnic profiling will be ‘stationed around the valley’ as activists raise concerns for Latino communityJoe Arpaio,the controversial sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, or who has been charged with criminal contempt in a racial discrimination case,is preparing to deploy his deputies at polling stations on election day in a go that voting rights activists warn amounts to intimidation.
Poll workers assigned to the county’s 640 polling places gain been instructed by the election recorder, Helen Purcell, and to contact Arpaio’s office for all non-life threatening police needs on election day. Principals whose schools gain polling places gain also been told that Arpaio’s deputies will be “stationed around the valley for easy dispatch should there be any need for an officer”. Related: Arizona asks 'the unprecedented': could Democrats sweep the west? Related: 'Born and raised' Texans forced to prove identities under new voter ID law Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com