Sheriff Arpaio spends up to $1 million to smear judge, fails miserably
Living in central Phoenix, I went to some of Netroots last week. After Sen. Elizabeth Warren's barn-burner on Friday, about 300 people, led by Puente Arizona, marched to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's jail (one-minute video of the protest above). It was only 100 that day, a cool wave. Nearby, a couple thousand inmates were living in tents, where it can reach 135+.
In addition to exposing and condemning the sheriff's criminal practices, marchers had two demands: 1) that Immigration and Customs Enforcement be removed from his office, because immigration is a federal responsibility, not his—a county lawman convicted of racial profiling; and 2) the sheriff must resign, because he's a corrupt dickhead.
It's looney tunes crazy that people are still protesting this blowhard, who Arizona Rep. Rául Grijalva, in his introduction to Sen. Warren, called "a criminal with a badge." He is a criminal,convicted in 2013 of racial profiling in the ACLU's Melendres v. Arpaio case, and found guilty of contempt of court this summer. By all rights he should be bounced from office, if not into the pokey, for twenty-plus years of this shit.
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