jtmunkus wrote:
http://tucsoncitizen.com/arizona-unapologetic-liberal/2011/12/20/breaking-news-woman-files-lawsuit-against-mcso-arpaio-after-being-shackled-during-birth/
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Breaking News:Woman files lawsuit against MCSO & Arpaio after being shackled during birth
by Carlos Galindo on Dec. 20, 2011, under Arizona Politics, ICE, Immigration, Tea Party
A woman and her attorney’s just filed a lawsuit naming the Maricopa County Sheriffs Office and Joe Arpaio and numerous others as defendants. The suit alleges the woman was shackled during labor and during a cesarean section that was performed while under the custody of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.
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Excellent. Shackling women during birth is obscene and barbaric. Hell, during a C-Section, a women's lower body isn't moving!
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UPDATE 4:29 PM: Atencio's brother Mike just called to tell me that Marty is still on life support, and that
the family has retained the services of Phoenix attorney Mike Manning, a well-known and very successful legal foe of Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Official comment by the Phoenix Police Dept regarding their arrest of Antencio (same link):
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On Thursday, December 15, 2011, just after 9 p.m., Phoenix Police officers were dispatched to the area of 2800 West Laurel Lane in Phoenix regarding a suspicious person. The caller, a resident of the area, advised our dispatcher a male individual was kicking at an apartment door at their complex. The victim caller also advised when she turned to call police, this individual followed her and confronted her in an aggressive manner. The victim caller believed she was in danger of being assaulted by this individual based on his actions however, the male suspect became distracted by a passing vehicle and began chasing it.
Officers arrived on scene and after speaking with the victim, arrested the male suspect who was identified as Ernest Atencio, a Hispanic male in his mid-forties. Ernest was transported by officers to the Phoenix Police Department's Jail Intake Center where he was processed to be booked into jail for assault.
After paperwork was completed and Mr. Atencio was processed, he was taken by Central Intake officers to the MCSO jail. We understand Mr. Atencio struggled with officers while going through the process at the MCSO facility. To date, we have not been provided with specific details as to our officers actions during this struggle, in part because we have not been provided any video of this struggle by MCSO.
We anticipate obtaining further information once MCSO completes their investigation. We understand, preliminarily, our officers did not tase this individual. Though we have not completed our investigation, we have no information at this time Mr. Atencio struggled with any of our officers prior to getting to the MCSO jail. We also understand, once MCSO staff took custody of Mr. Atencio and placed him in a safe cell, our officers had no further involvement or contact with him.
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What kind of heartless soul would hassle a 79-year-old man holding a puppy about botched sex-crime investigations? No-nonsense 12News reporter Brahm Resnik, that's who.
Resnik tracked down Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio at the Christmas party for the MCSO's MASH Unit to ask him how more than 400 sex-crime investigations were botched on his watch.
The sheriff responded by working himself into a huff -- grumbling that the problem was solved in 2007 -- and then holding a puppy up to the camera.If this pup happens to be in need of a name, "Smoke" or "Mirrors" each have a nice ring to them.
Video of Arpaio, his tantrum and his puppy PR ploy at the link. Arpaio is in full "fuck you, I'm the victim here" mode.
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