#arpaio

Source: https://amp.theguardian.com/cities/2017/aug/21/arizona-phoenix-concentration-camp-tent-city-jail-joe-arpaio-immigration

I heard about this guy listening to old knowledge war episode this guy is a monster and he got away with it bc trump pardoned him. He was a sheriff in Arizona for decades.

I’m at work and can’t do much research but a brief search NO ONE was charged with crimes for keeping people outside in tents at 145 F WEATHER IN FUCKING ARIZONA.

If all that wasn’t bad enough! He ran for mayor! He shouldn’t be running for mayor he should have his back to the wall!!!!

From 1/4/2024 he got enough signatures to run for mayor

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4389631-arizonas-sheriff-joe-arpaio-signatures-qualify-run-for-mayo-fountain-hill/

(via Appeals Court Rejects Joe Arpaio’s Bid To Wipe His Contempt Finding Off The Books | Talking Points Memo)

(via Arpaio Announces Run For Maricopa County Sheriff)

i mean who DOESN’T want a 90 year old power-hungry racist, that is also a convicted criminal, running the sheriff’s department in the most populous Arizona county?...

The First Official Recognition and Support of Authoritarianism On American Soil by Trump!

“They had trouble believing that his kind of law-enforcement abuse was really happening, and, if so, they weren’t confident I would able to capture it on camera,” she said. This proved to hardly be the case.

“Trump has called Arpaio a ‘great American patriot,’ employing a definition of patriotism that includes extreme ethnic profiling, terror raids, and cruel and unusual punishment. A definition of patriotism that covers using internment camps in extreme heat, parading women and juvenile offenders for the cameras in chain gangs, and degrading inmates in creative acts of bullying. This is not patriotism; it is the abuse of power in the cause of bigotry.”

Trump’s worst moments are his most authentic moments.