Activists criticize Ariz. Republican for Latino and Muslim jokes at roast of Joe Arpaio

By Arturo Garcia, The Raw Story

An Arizona state lawmaker’s material in a roast of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio centered almost exclusively on Latinos, Muslims and Asians, according to audio published on Wednesday by the Southern Poverty Law Center. (SPLC)

During his roast, Rep. John Kavanagh (R) asked Arpaio, “How many Hispanics did you pull over on the way over here?” and cracked that the federal monitor appointed to oversee the sheriff’s operations would be “unreasonable.”

“When Sheriff Joe sends his new deputies to the academy, he will no longer just train them to do the Miranda warning in Spanish,” Kavanagh said. “He will have to teach it in English too. The sign over the booking intake door in the jail will have to have ‘Welcome’ and just not ‘Bienvenido.’”\

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