Another Move Against FLDS Control Of Arizona City

In another step against the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a breakaway polygamist Mormon sect, Arizona's attorney general is seeking a federal civil rights review of the entire police force of Colorado City. The development is reported in an AP story from Friday carried by Officer.com. It is claimed that the FLDS dominates Colorado City and adjacent Hildale, Utah. (See prior posting.) Other law enforcement officials and citizens claim that the Colorado City police force operates under direction of FLDS. Young men who had clashed with leaders of FLDS have complained of being threatened with arrest and forced to leave the city. There are also claims that the police have ignored complaints from women who were forced into marriage or subjected to violence.