Political Quotes

“At least in Phoenix, AR, we have told the police in my district that if you have a reasonable suspicion, you can stop someone and inquire into their activity. That is in fact the law in America. In Phoenix, AZ, if police see some group of individuals at 5:00 in the morning or midnight or practically any time of day, and upon those individuals recognizing them as police the individuals scatter and run in six different directions, that certainly would be for any judge in Arizona articulable suspicion and reasonable grounds for them to stop those individuals, to make an inquiry, to require them to produce some identification, and to find out whether or not criminal activity is going on. I, myself, signed a letter today calling for Judge Baer to immediately resign from the Federal bench. If you contemplate the society which he is calling for, it is a society in which the norm is citizens may run from police, and when police see them run, they are to assume, well, there is nothing wrong.”