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Arizona sheriff mocks inquiry in ’09 audiotape

Associated Press

  April 23, 2012

An audio recording has surfaced of an Arizona sheriff playing his refusal to cooperate in a racial profiling investigation for laughs at a fund-raiser for an anti-illegal immigration group in Texas. In the 2009 comments, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio ridicules politicians who sought the probe and displayed contempt toward federal authorities who were - and are still - investigating him on two fronts.

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