Pima County Sheriff speaks on out tragedy in Tucson

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January 08, 2011

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Arizona sheriff slams media ‘vitriol’

Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik took several shots at the media during his interviews and press conference on the Tucson shooting Saturday.
During the press conference, he criticized “people who making a living” off “inflaming the American public":

When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government, the anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous. And unfortunately, Arizona has become sort of the capital. We have become the mecca for prejudice and bigotry.

(snip)

Let me say one thing, because people tend to pooh-pooh this business about all the vitriol that we hear inflaming the American public by people who make a living off of doing that. That may be free speech, but it’s not without consequences.

Earlier in the day, in an interview that aired on KPNX and MSNBC, he specifically called out people in radio and television.