{"id":8789,"date":"2013-05-25T10:30:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T10:30:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T10:30:57","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8789","title":{"rendered":"HuffPo: Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio Racially Profiled Latinos, Federal Judge Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HuffPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/05\/24\/arpaio-racial-profiling_n_3333907.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-sb-bb%7Cdl6%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D318466\">Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio Racially Profiled Latinos, Federal Judge Rules<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>PHOENIX, May 24 (Reuters) &#8211; Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio violated the constitutional rights of Latino drivers in his crackdown on illegal immigration, a federal judge found on Friday, and ordered him to stop using race as a factor in law enforcement decisions.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling against the Maricopa County sheriff came in response to a class-action lawsuit brought by Hispanic drivers that tested whether police can target illegal immigrants without racially profiling U.S. citizens and legal residents of Hispanic origin.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Court Judge Murray Snow ruled that the sheriff&#8217;s policies violated the drivers&#8217; constitutional rights and ordered Arpaio&#8217;s office to cease using race or ancestry as a grounds to stop, detain or hold occupants of vehicles &#8211; some of them in crime sweeps dubbed &#8220;saturation patrols.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8789\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}