Sheriff Goes On Racist Fueled Tirade, Threatens To Shoot Prosecutor Between His "Jewish Eyes"

Story out of Baton Rouge, Louisiana:

A south Louisiana sheriff was taped making anti-Semitic threats that he apparently directed at a federal prosecutor assigned to a civil rights case against him, according to a court filing.

Prosecutors said in Wednesday's (June 29) court filing that an "unsolicited informant" recently provided them with a series of recorded conversations between Iberia Parish Sheriff Louis Ackal and others. A transcript of one conversation includes Ackal recounting a meeting with a prosecutor in which the sheriff claims he threatened to shoot the prosecutor right between his "Jewish eyes" after the prosecutor vowed to send him to prison.

Ackal's meeting with the prosecutor and other federal authorities occurred before Ackal's original March 9 indictment on charges over the alleged beatings of five jail inmates, prosecutors said. Cont.

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