Drunk Sheriff’s Deputy Accused of Trying to Hunt Down Half-Asian Guest at Neighbor’s Party as “An ISIS.” is Freed by Judge With History of Anti-Arab Remarks
A Lewis & Clark County deputy sheriff who got all liquored up at a neigbor’s bachelor party and, according to court documents, threatened a half-Asian guy with a gun, pointing it directly at his chest several times after calling him “an ISIS”, was released on his own recognizance by a local Justice of the Peace even though he originally had a $50,000 bail.
Justice of the Peace Michael Swingley is the judge who released deputy Phillip Clark on his own recognizance, so he is now free to hunt down members of ISIS at other neighborhood social gatherings. Judge Swingley was formerly a member of law enforcement like Clark. Swingley previously made headlines for the bigoted remarks he made in an email, using his official justice of the peace account, to the Helena City Commission, in which he compared all Arab/Muslims to ISIS:
I request that you remove the Arabic writing from inside the Civic Center. It reminds me of the Arabic writing on the flag of ISIS and as 99.9% of the terrorist [sic] in the world have turned out to be Islamic fundamentalist [sic] and Arabic speaking, it offends me that Helena would allow such a symbol. I realize that the history of the Civic Center was that of a Masonic/Shriner’s temple, that aligned themselves [sic] with the far east and had a large Arabic influenced theme. But if we are going to rewrite and ignore the facts of history, we need to be fair and remove that symbolism as that conflict is still active and Christians like me are being killed daily by Arabic speaking fundamentalist [sic] who show those characters on their flag.
Swingley, who was upset over a discussion of a confederate fountain in Helena, also claimed that the main reason the Civil War was fought was not slavery but rather “banks.”
Keep in mind that slavery was only one issue that caused the Civil War. The largest portion was economic based war as the southern states wanted to separate and begin printing their own currency, and detach from the banks of the United States.
You can read the entire letter Justice Swingley sent
here. His Facebook page revealed a history of other racial slurs and off-color remarks.
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