Radio station calls for Garcia's firing

09:26 PM MST on Monday, July 14, 2008

By Delane Cleveland, Fox 11 News

Protestors greeted Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio when he came to Tucson to sell his books on Thursday, July 10. Now a local radio station is trying to get one of the protestors fired from her County job.



The station, 104.1 The Truth, is mounting a letter-writing campaign to try and get Isabel Garcia removed from her job as Pima County Public Defender. However, the County says that Garcia has done nothing wrong.



On July 10, when Arpaio came to do a book signing at a Tucson store, Garcia and her group, Derechos Humanos, were there to protest his appearance and denounce his policies, which they say have created great racial divisions in Phoenix. Part of that protest included beating up a piñata with Arpaio’s likeness attached to the head.



John Howard is one of dozens of people who bombarded Fox 11 News with emails calling for Garcia to lose her job as Pima County Public Defender. “To think that it’s OK to do this kind of act, beat up someone that is a sheriff, that is a law official, that’s what really got me,â€