Brickbat: Uncollegial Behavior

Ricardo Garcia, a former deputy with Arizona's Pima County Sheriff's Department, was sentenced to one year in jail and three years of probation after being found guilty of two counts of attempted sexual assault and two counts of sexual abuse for trying to sexually assault a fellow deputy who was also his subordinate. The case was controversial because Sheriff Chris Nanos, who was close to Garcia, kept the investigation within the department, making some people question if he was protecting his friend. The Arizona Attorney General's office found no crimes in how Nanos handled it but noted the sheriff's team might have broken some internal rules.

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“I’m in a million pieces,” the victim told the judge.

BeLiEvE aLL wOmEn, LOL. #MeToo.

Hey, what is a woman anyway?

Although the jury found him not guilty of sexual assault, they found three aggravating circumstances for the four lesser charges; physical harm, emotional harm, and that Garcia was in a position of authority over the victim.

That's weird.

So, this is among one of the more egregious brickbats to date.

Chuckie says: "after being found guilty of two counts of attempted sexual assault and two counts of sexual abuse for trying to sexually assault a fellow deputy who was also his subordinate."

The ONLY source he provides says... what I already quoted above. Of course, Chuckie just copy/pasted his line for narrative purposes and ignored everything else.

Chaz says: "The case was controversial because Sheriff Chris Nanos, who was close to Garcia, kept the investigation within the department, making some people question if he was protecting his friend.

The ONLY source he provides says... "Throughout the trial, multiple current and former PCSD employees testified that the orders to continue investigating that night came directly from the Sheriff."

That seems outright contradictory to Chaz's narrative.

Carlito says, "The Arizona Attorney General's office found no crimes in how Nanos handled it but noted the sheriff's team might have broken some internal rules."

The ONLY source he provides says... "the Department may have violated four areas of internal policy the night of the attempted assault, including a requirement to take action when a fellow department member is in danger."

So, A) we've got a failure to convict on sexual assault itself. Meaning, they couldn't prove a sexual assault actually happened (but she's in a million pieces, *sob*) - just that there were "aggravating circumstances" (which they don't elaborate on, and Carlito makes no attempt to investigate) pursuant to physical/emotional harm. I don't even know what that's supposed to mean, but it could range anywhere between "she fought him off" and "others intervened." And I'm inclined to lean towards the latter because the best Carlito can come up with is "might have."

And/or B) assuming said #MeToo was actually regarded as "in danger" by them. Which, according to the rest of the article - and the reasonable inferences one can make from it - was that this was otherwise a pretty stand up guy who likely made some questionable decisions (likely under the influence) at a Christmas party.

No, I'm not going to defend that. Not for a cop or anyone else.

I'm just going to point out that this Charlie-boy here is really scraping the barrel these days to come up with Brickbats. There's so little detail here, and so much agenda-driven narrative heaped on here, that how is any rational person supposed to make any rational conclusion?

But then, Brickbat doesn't really seem interested in rationality anymore.

Just ACAB.

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And I'm not even going to TRY and guess why he captioned this with some Tombstone cosplayers.

I mean, seriously. What IS that?

[Chipper Chunked Chile Con Congress (ex NCW)]

First hit on Google Images for "Sheriff"?

[Incunabulum]

Its probably the only thing Arizona is known about in DC.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...the sheriff's team might have broken some internal rules.

But internal rules are placed higher than actual law!

[Vernon Depner]

Omerta.

[Chumby]

The internal ruled could have been deputies wearing sunglasses at night. Or using black ink instead of blue ink.

[Longtobefree]

If it's not a crime to break the rules, you don't need the rules.

[mad.casual]

sheriff's team might have broken some internal rules

Like censoring their own users on behalf of the FBI? Like funding GOF research internationally to circumvent a federal ban? Like reporting "MOSTLY PEACEFUL!" in front of a burning police station or that "Kyle Rittenhouse shouldn't have been there." while simultaneously supporting open national borders?

OH NOEZ!

[Incunabulum]

I grew up in Pima county. The two worst counties in Arizona are the two blue ones.