Phoenix Newspaper Tears Into Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio In Brutal Twitter Thread
The Phoenix New Times did not hold back after Trump pardoned the Arizona ex-sheriff.
A Phoenix weekly is taking the opportunity to remind people exactly who President
Donald Trump just pardoned.
Former Maricopa County Sheriff
Joe Arpaio, who called himself as “America’s toughest sheriff,” was
convicted of criminal contempt in July after violating a 2011 court order in a racial profiling case. Arpaio and his office had been ordered not to detain people solely because they thought they might be in the country illegally.
Trump pardoned Arpaio, 85, for the contempt charge on Friday.
Arpaio’s tenure as sheriff from 1993 through 2016 has received strong criticism from civil rights advocates, largely stemming from his
extreme stance on immigration and for overseeing what they say was a
cruel treatment of inmates.
And few know those controversies better than the Phoenix New Times, an alternative weekly that’s doggedly covered Arpaio for two decades.
The night that Trump pardoned him, the Phoenix New Times unleashed
an eye-opening Twitter thread reminding readers of some of the grimmest stories of Arpaio and his office.
The numerous tweets — which all link to previous Phoenix New Times stories — describe instances like Arpaio
calling his state’s own jail a “concentration camp,” jailers
breaking the neck of a paraplegic man, the failure of the sheriff’s office to investigate
hundreds of sex abuse cases and a botched SWAT raid in which deputies allegedly
laughed as a puppy burned to death.
Read the whole thread for yourself below.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...87de4b06d67e337ea8a?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
