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Half a Year After Trump’s Defeat, Arizona Republicans Are Re
The number of children hospitalized for COVID-19 doubled in July, Arizona's largest health system s
The number of children hospitalized for COVID-19 doubled in July, Arizona's largest health system s
The number of children hospitalized for COVID-19 doubled in July, Arizona's largest health system s
Half a Year After Trump’s Defeat, Arizona Republicans Are Recounting the Vote
The number of children hospitalized for COVID-19 doubled in July, Arizona's largest health system s
The number of children hospitalized for COVID-19 doubled in July, Arizona's largest health system s
April 25, 2021
PHOENIX — It seemed so simple back in December.
Responding to angry voters who echoed former President Donald J. Trump’s false claims of a stolen election, Arizona Republicans promised a detailed review of the vote that showed Mr. Trump to have been the first Republican presidential nominee to lose the state since 1996. “We hold an audit,” State Senator Eddie Farnsworth said at a Judiciary Committee hearing. “And then we can put this to rest.”
But when a parade of flatbed trucks last week hauled boxes of voting equipment and 78 pallets containing the 2.1 million ballots of Arizona’s largest county to a decrepit local coliseum, it kicked off a seat-of-the-pants audit process that seemed more likely to amplify Republican grievances than to put them to rest.
Almost half a year after the election Mr. Trump lost, the promised audit has become a snipe hunt for skulduggery that has spanned a court battle, death threats and calls to arrest the elected leadership of Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix.
The head of Cyber Ninjas, the Florida-based firm that Republican senators hired to oversee the audit, has embraced Mr. Trump’s baseless theories of election theft and has suggested, contrary to available evidence, that Mr. Trump actually won Arizona by 200,000 votes. The pro-Trump cable channel One America News Network has started a fund-raiser to finance the venture and has been named one of the nonpartisan observers that will keep the audit on the straight and narrow.
Justice Department Is Investigating Phoenix Police After Reports Of Excessive Force
The number of children hospitalized for COVID-19 doubled in July, Arizona's largest health system s
Justice Department Is Investigating Phoenix Police After Reports Of Excessive Force
Protesters rally in June of last year in Phoenix demanding that the Phoenix City Council defund the Phoenix Police Department.
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The Justice Department is launching an investigation of the Phoenix Police Department over allegations of excessive use of force and homeless abuse.
"When we conduct pattern or practice investigations to determine whether the Constitution or federal law has been violated, our aim is to promote transparency and accountability," Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement announcing the investigation Thursday afternoon. "This increases public trust, which in turn increases public safety. We know that law enforcement shares these goals."
Earlier this year, a local ABC investigation found some in the department were circulating "challenge coins" that depicted a protester who had been shot in the groin area with the words "GOOD NIGHT LEFT NUT" on one side and "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN ONE NUT AT A TIME" on the other.
The coin also had the date of a 2017 protest when former President Donald Trump was speaking in Phoenix.
Another incident this year involved video of a police officer repeatedly striking someone on the ground in a homeless encampment.
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