UPDATE: Bizzell apologizes for some of his remarks.

"[T]o travel with Bizzell is to understand not only the anger, but also the ambivalence that surrounds an intensifying crackdown on illegal immigrants."

N&O's Kristin Collins rides along with Johnston County Sheriff Steve Bizzell.

Interesting that more than half of NC's sheriffs are endorsing Kay Hagan; it would be interesting, too, to see party-line breakdown of NC sheriffs (here's a list, if anyone wants to take the time to figure it out).

Comments

[justcorbly]

A nice piece of work by Collins. It reminded my of similar pieces I read years ago when reporters would tag along with a white sheriff who wanted to talk about his county's "black problem."

[James Protzman]

Apologizes? Barely.