Joe Arpaio is a monster. Valencia Voldemort is sending a clear message to his supporters with this pardon; If you are white and racist, I am on your side, even if you break the law. Of course, we knew that already with his "both sides" nun-fuckery regarding Charlottesville, but for people with both a brain AND a conscience, this should seal the deal.
And I do not use the term monster loosely.
From:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/ar ... ts/538119/
"Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Phoenix-based department repeatedly arrested Latinos illegally, abused them in the county jails and failed to investigate hundreds of sexual assaults, the Justice Department charged after a three-year civil rights investigation," the Los Angeles Times reported. The investigation found "432 cases of sexual assault and child molestation, often involving Latinos, that were not properly investigated over a three-year period." Additionally, "one Latino was intentionally hit by a patrol car and dragged, with instructions for other deputies to 'leave him there ... A Latino motorist was incarcerated for 13 days for not using his turn signal. Emails written by deputies caricatured Mexicans as being from 'Mexifornia,' and deputies derided Latino inmates as 'wetbacks,' 'Mexican bitches,' 'stupid Mexicans' and other epithets."(The Los Angeles Times)
"Maricopa County Sheriff's officials misspent $99.5 million in restricted jail funds over the last eight years ... discrepancies existed for years between sheriff's employees' actual duties and the duties reported in county payroll records." (The Arizona Republic)
"A federal judge has sided with inmates' claims that conditions in Maricopa County jails continue to violate their constitutional rights." (The Arizona Republic)
"The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office failed to adequately investigate more than 400 sex-crime cases, including dozens in El Mirage, over a two-year period because of poor oversight and former Chief Deputy David Hendershott's desire to protect a key investigator from bad publicity, according to documents pertaining to a recent internal investigation released by the Sheriff's Office." (The Arizona Republic)
"A federal investigation found that deputies had used stun guns on prisoners already strapped into a 'restraint chair.' The family of one man who died after being forced into the restraint chair was awarded more than six million dollars as the result of a suit... The family of another man killed in the restraint chair got $8.25 million in a pre-trial settlement. (This deal was reached after the discovery of a surveillance video that showed fourteen guards beating, shocking, and suffocating the prisoner, and after the sheriff's office was accused of discarding evidence, including the crushed larynx of the deceased.) To date, lawsuits brought against Arpaio's office have cost Maricopa County taxpayers forty-three million dollars, according to some estimates. But the Sheriff has never acknowledged any wrongdoing in his jails, never apologized to victims or their families. In fact, many of the officers involved have been promoted." (The New Yorker)
"The Phoenix New Times ran an investigation of Arpaio's real-estate dealings that included Arpaio's home address, which he argued was possibly a violation of state law. When the paper revealed that it had received an impossibly broad subpoena, demanding, among other things, the Internet records of all visitors to its Web site in the previous two and a half years, sheriff's deputies staged late-night raids on the homes of Michael Lacey and James Larkin, executives of Village Voice Media, which owns the New Times. The deputies arrested both men for, they said, violating grand-jury secrecy. The county attorney declined to prosecute, and it turned out that the subpoenas were issued unlawfully." (The New Yorker)
On numerous occasions Arpaio put political opponents in his cross-hairs, eventually prompting an FBI investigation that began in the last days of the Bush Administration. (
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/ ... steps.html)
The man Agent Orange pardoned is a racist, Birther conspriacy theorist who failed his community, especially children who were sexually assaulted. He violated the civil rights of Latinx people, and to reiterate the point of my first paragraph, pardoning the racist Sherrif for violating the Constitution so flagrantly sends the massge that the current goddamn President of the Untied States approves of that behavior.
This is why I say that you are inherently an immoral, bigoted, pro-fascist person if you voted for the Tangerine Taint. No exceptions. There are no good Trump Voters. Just the intentionally racist ones, and the too stupid to know they were being racist ones. If I thought prayer was something that actually worked, I'd feel no guilt about praying for each and every single one of you 62 million pieces of shit to get incurable genital cancer. And hey, with Toupee Fiasco's gutting of environmental protections, that might end up happening to a lot of you anyway, especially if you live in a state that has a lot of polluting industries. I hope ruining this country was worth feeling good about "making Libtards angry," you sociopathic fucks.
Edited to fix some grammar and spelling errors.