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Hatewatch exclusive: Latinos are punch line at roast of Arizona’s racial-profiling sheriff

The SPLC has obtained exclusive audio of an Arizona legislator mocking Latinos and other minorities with racially charged jokes at a recent roast of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio at the Western Conservative Conference.

The SPLC has obtained exclusive audio of an Arizona legislator mocking Latinos and other minorities with racially charged jokes at a recent roast of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio at the Western Conservative Conference.

Arpaio is under the scrutiny of a federal monitor appointed last year by a judge who found his deputies have engaged in racial profiling of Latinos during immigration sweeps and traffic stops.

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