Sheriff Joe Arpaio said in December that a Phoenix city employee's husband was issued a ticket for off-roading in a restricted area and she threw out the 'race card' at first - but later retracted it.
A few months ago, Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon accused Sheriff Joe Arpaio of racial profiling in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey.
In the letter, the mayor claimed that race was behind a stop and citation against a Hispanic city employee. After an investigation, Sheriff Arpaio found Gordon's claim to be false.
Arpaio called into the J.D. Hayworth show, on KFYI AM550, and said that Mayor Gordon didn't have his facts straight. During the investigation, the city employee apologized and said she wasn't racially profiled.
Earlier this week in Washington, Gordon asked the national news media to look closely at Arpaio's methods for his "crime suppression sweeps" that target illegal immigrants. At a news conference on Wednesday, Gordon repeated his request to Arpaio to cooperate with local police agencies when he does the sweeps. Gordon also insisted that it's not a personal feud with Arpaio, but rather a feeling that Arpaio is not following professional police procedures.
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